On the Internet, publications describing a dialogue between a physicist and an actress that their children would be smart, like a father, and beautiful as a mother. We decided to check whether such a dialogue took place in reality.

Quotes from the dialogue that allegedly occurred between the Nobel laureate and the star of the cinema, are very popular in social networks ("VKontakte" Facebook*, Instagram*, "Classmates" Telegram) and on the blog-platforms ("Zen" Livejournal, "Picabu","Habr"). They write about it Information And Entertaining Portals. The most common version of this alleged conversation is: "Marilyn Monroe once said to Einstein:" We could have a child. He would be beautiful like me and smart as you. " To which the father of the theory of relativity replied: "I'm afraid that everything will be the other way around: he will inherit my beauty and your mind." Some publications also specify that the intelligence coefficient (IQ) Marilyn Monroe was higher than that of Einstein - 165 points.

"Checked" already Studied Information about the incredibly high IQ of Monroe could not find confirmation that the movie star passed this test and/or publicly announced this. As for the incident dialogue about hypothetical joint children of a physicist and actress, he also causes some doubts.

“Verified” failed to find joint photographs, videos, or at least evidence of eyewitnesses that Monroe And Einstein Generally ever met. They lived in different cities and rotated in completely different circles. Of course, since each of them was an outstanding representative of their industry, they could hypothetically be invited to some event, but there is no evidence of this.

It was not possible to find any evidence of this story and in written sources preserved after the death of the scientist: they are well studied, most of them are digitized. So, for example, in the electronic archive Jewish University The largest collection of texts written by Einstein is presented in Jerusalem. Similar databases with digitized work and letters are collected in California technological And Princeton Universities (USA). Monroe, unlike a physicist, did not leave such an extensive literary heritage, and “verified” could not find her interviews or other statements related to a meeting with Einstein.

Interestingly, in the English -language segment of the Internet, a dialogue about hypothetical children who will inherit the beauty of the mother and the mind of the father, more often attributed other famous personalities: playwright Bernard show and dancer Isadore Duncan, writer Anatoly France and the same Duncan, Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller and others. Portal of quotes of Quote Investigator traveled this historical joke to the newspaper Boston Globe of December 7 1923 (two years before the birth of Monroe). Then his actors were Duncan and France. It seems extremely doubtful that Monroe and Einstein at a meeting would decide to repeat the ironic dialogue, long before that attributed to other people.

At the same time, it is quite possible that Monroe experienced some sympathy for Einstein, despite the solid difference in age (the physicist was 47 years older than the star). Actress Shelley Winters, sharing a room in her youth from Monroe, told a newspaper in an interview Los Angeles Timesthat once the girls made lists of men with whom they would like to sleep. According to Wklaw, there was no one younger than 50 in the Monroe list and among others there was the name of the Nobel laureate. The actress notes that she does not know if her friend managed to realize any goals from this list, but hints at a possible connection between Monroe and Einstein, since after the death of the actress she saw her photo physicist with an autograph. However, there are no other confirmations of the relationship between the scientist and the actress, and the photo with the signature is extremely weak proof.

Thus, there is no evidence that Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein were generally familiar or at least saw at common events. The dialogue about hypothetical children who can inherit the beauty of the mother and the mind of the father, was attributed to completely other people for long not only before the hypothetical meeting of the Monroe with the Nobel laureate, but even before her birth.

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Photo on the cover: on the left - Photoograph by oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J.Public Domain, Via Wikimedia Commons, on the right - Los Angeles Times, CC by 4.0Via Wikimedia Commons