hink about Marilyn Monroe, and certain images instantly come to mind: the red lips, slightly parted; the sleepy, siren eyes; the platinum blonde hair; and that voice, breathy, like she just woke up and can't wait for you to join her in bed. Her friend, the writer Truman Capote, described her as a "platinum sex-explosion". The cinematographer Leon Shamroy, who shot her very first screen test in 1946, famously said she was like "sex on a piece of film". Marilyn conjures up sex and – simult...