According to Marilyn Monroe's journals, she loved living in Brooklyn, New York. She liked the diversity. She was pictured in places where black people go. Marlon Brando hung out with black people after he finished the show A Streetcar Named Desire. And since she was also being watched by the FBI under Hoover after her affairs with John and Bobby, I guess she would also be on her best behavior. Friends are one thing, lovers are another. When Marilyn had a fling with a friend while she was married to Joe DiMaggio, DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra and a couple of Sam Giancana's guys arrived at the apartment building. Marilyn left the apartment to keep DiMaggio, Sinatra and his friends from killing her friend.
G,Frank and Joe went into the wrong room and paid money to that tenant whose place had been broken into.
I forgot about that detail. I remember the interview with the boyfriend and he was pretty much scared at the time.
Don't know if Marilyn dated black men for sure, but it is interesting she's in a black club and her hand seems to be holding his arm sleeve and they look very comfortable.