A little off topic, but regarding Marilyn Monroe, I read in Psychology Today that the reason she talked the way she did was actually to control her stuttering. She stuttered all through her childhood and young adult life, but apparently found that talking "breathy" made speaking easier. She also hated the fact that she was always typecast as the dumb-blonde-bombshell, the same as Vivien Leigh hated being typecast in period pieces, especially as the Southern Belle after Gone With The Wind. I'm not saying that Marilyn was an angel; we all know better than that. But she wasn't anything near as bad as the huge phony known as Anna Nichole Smith.