The golden age of hollywood, the era of glamour and elegance not to mention incroyable talent. Where actresses where often heralded for their stunning looks and talent, but it’s not often people highlight their intelligence.
Amazing talents like Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, and Hedy Lamarr transformed the world of cinema with their combination of looks, allure, and on-screen presence.
As it turns out, there is more in them than that, they also have have an extremely high IQs.
160 – Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was born on April 19, 1933 and died on June 29, 1967, she was an actress, performer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates.
She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s, while under contract at 20th Century Fox.
Although Mansfield’s film career was short-lived, she had several box-office successes,and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe.
She enjoyed success both in the 1955–1956 Broadway version and the 1957 Hollywood film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Her other major movie performances were in, The Girl Can’t Help It (1956), The Wayward Bus (1957), and Too Hot to Handle (1960).
In the sexploitation film Promises! Promises! (1963), she became the first major American actress starring in a Hollywood motion picture to have a nude scene.
Though she was known more for her gravity-defying hourglass figure, she was actually quite brainy behind that body.
She studied at Southern Methodist University and later at the University of Texas at Austin. Often called Hollywood’s “smartest dumb blonde” she reportedly spoke French, German, and Spanish.
And According to her daughter, actress Mariska Hargitay, her glamorous mother had a high IQ of 160, though Mansfield once said it was actually 163.
On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile collision in Eastern New Orleans at the age of 34.
135 – Julie Newmar
In the ‘60s, actress, dancer, singer Julie Newmar was considered one of the most attractive women in Hollywood. She is best known for playing the latex-clad Catwoman in the television version of “Batman.”
she also She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round.
Newmar appeared in the music video for George Michael’s 1992 single “Too Funky”. And had a cameo as herself in the 1995 film To Wong Foo.
Her voice work includes the animated feature films; Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016), and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017), where she reprised her role as Catwoman 50 years after the original television series.
Julie Newmar is also a writer, and lingerie inventor, she also has a reported IQ of 135. In addition to trying to revolutionize women’s undergarments, she is quite the savvy real estate investor, having snatched up various properties beginning in the ‘80s.
162- Jill St. John
Actress Jill St. John is best known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl of the James Bond film franchise, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Additional performances in film include Holiday for Lovers, The Lost World, Tender Is the Night, Come Blow Your Horn, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.
She has worked in a variety of genres, which has spanned decades, including romantic comedies, spy thrillers, and action films. She has shared the screen with well-known actors like Robert Wagner, Sean Connery, and Frank Sinatra.
During her Hollywood heyday, she was almost equally famous for her high-profile social life, and frequent romantic associations with prominent stars.
The Classic beauty’s IQ is estimated at 162, a sky-scraping number which is even higher than Albert Einstein intelligence quotient.
she was even accepted into the University of California at the age of 14. She definitly has the highest IQ among Bond girls.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an actress and inventor. Though she was known for her icy demeanor and exotic good looks, behind her beauty was an equally enchanting brain.
During the golden age of cinema, actress Hedy Lamarr lit up the screen with hits like “Lady of the Tropics”, and “Samson and Delilah.” She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958).
she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
But behind the scenes, Lamarr found acting quite boring and preferred inventing. At the beginning of World War II, She and composer George Antheil worked together on a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, intended to use frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers, a technology that would later be found in Bluetooth, GPS, and Wi-Fi.
This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian, and singer. Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as Billie Dawn led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
She was known for her performance on Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 film adaptation.
The award winning actress had a reported IQ of 172.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most well-known American actresses. She was also a singer and model, and one of the best known sex symbols in hollywood history.
However, the “dumb blonde” had one of the most brilliant minds in history, although There is a lot of contradictory information on her IQ.
Despite her concentration on self-improvement, Marilyn did not complete high school. But she had over 400 volumes in her collection. Most people who are familiar with Marilyn’s collection know that she possessed volumes on Art and Drama, Poetry, Politics, History, Theology, Psychology, and Philosophy.
Although Marilyn Monroe was not well educated, but she was clever and intellectually curious, and she loved to read and study. But there is no solid proof that she took an IQ test and received a score of 168.