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But I'm beginning to understand myself now. I can face myself more, you might say. I've spent most of my life running away from myself". </B></I><I><B>    </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"..I've given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I'm sure it would frighten me!".</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"I am invariably late for appointments.. sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong and too pleasing..".</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere".</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"I'm not the girl next door. I'm not a goody-goody, but I think I'm human".</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Marilyn Monroe</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1926:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>June 1st:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>                  </B></I></FONT><I><B>Marilyn Monroe is born in the charity ward of LA Hospital in California.</B></I><I><B> Her mother was Gladys Pearl Monroe and her father was Stanley Gifford. Gladys and Stanley both worked at the Hollywood </B></I><I><B>film labs-Marilyn's mum was a film cutter. Gladys had left her second husband (Edward Mortensen) for Gifford. Unfortunately,Gifford was a notorious womaniser and his relationship with Gladys lasted only a few months. By the time they separated,she was already pregnant. She decided to keep the baby and become an unmarried mother.  She names her baby Norma Jeane;she names her after two of her favourite Hollywood stars: Norma Talmadge and Jean Harlow. According to her birth certificate,Norma Jeane's surname is Mortensen. However,later in life Norma Jeane will use the surname Baker. (Jack Baker was her mother's first husband).</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="7616faa0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         <IMG SRC="762fadc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>               </B></I><I> Ed. Mortensen                Stanley Gifford(on the right)</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>June 12th: </B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>                    </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Gladys gives Norma Jeane  to a foster family, the Bolenders</B></I></FONT><I><B>. Gladys intends to take Norma Jeane back to live with her, as soon as things will start looking up. The Bolenders are a very strict and religious family and Gladys think</B></I><I><B>s that the sooner Norma Jeane is removed from their influence, the better. However, the Bolenders like Norma Jeane and offer to adopt her, but Gladys refuses. Every Saturday Gladys goes to Hawthorne to visit her daughter.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="4ac8de10.jpg" border=0 width="141" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">               <IMG SRC="4ad8ee10.jpg" border=0 width="142" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    <IMG SRC="4b4a0be0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="190" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>NJ and Gladys                     NJ and Lester Bolender          At the Bolenders'</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1933:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>August 16th:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                        </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Norma Jeane's half-brother, Jackie Baker, dies at the age of 14. Norma Jeane also has a half-sister, Berniece Baker. After Gladys divorced her first husband, she "lost" both her children: Baker took them with him to Kentucky. Gladys decided to leave them there with Baker because she wanted them "to enjoy a better life than she could give them". Norma Jeane met Berniece for the first time in 1944, when she was 18. They never lost touch ever since, they exchanged a lot of letters.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>October 20th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>                           </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Gladys purchases a bungalow located at 6812 Arbol Drive (near Highland Avenue, in Hollywood) and brings Norma Jeane home to live with her. She also purchases hospitalization and a life insurance and generally she does everything in her power to secure their common homelife. Further,she buys little Norma Jeane a white piano. They don't live alone though; they share their house with their tenants: an elderly English couple and their daughter. Norma Jeane starts attending the Selma Avenue Elementary School.</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>    (According to Marilyn, the old Englishman abused her sexually sometime in</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> early 1935.</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><I><B>After that traumatic experience, Norma Jeane starts stammering).</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>   </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1935:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>January 15th:</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                         </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>   Gladys is declared legally insane (paranoid schizofrenia) and Grace McKee (Gladys' best friend) is appointed Norma Jeane's guardian.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>(Gladys isn't the only mental case in the family: both Gladys' parents had gone mad too.)</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>August 17th:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                         </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Grace Mc Kee and "Doc" Goddard get married in Las Vegas, Nevada.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>September 13th:</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                                </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Grace takes Norma Jeane to the "Los Angeles Orphans' Home". She promises Norma Jeane to take her back home with them as soon as they get a bigger house.( Grace had always loved Norma Jeane a lot and never spared money when it came to Norma Jeane).</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>  Norma Jeane becomes child #3463. The orphanage is now called Hollygrove.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1936:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>October: </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                 </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>    Grace Goddard keeps her promise and takes Norma Jeane to live with the Goddards (Doc, Grace and Doc's 3 children).</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="4b0a4e10.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>1937:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>December:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                     </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Norma Jeane packs again; Grace arranges for her to go and live with Ida Martin. (Ida was the mother-in-law of Gladys' brother, Marion). After Marion abandoned his family, his three children went to live with Ida, so Ida really didn't hesitate to take one more child in her house. </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1938:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>September: </B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>                     </B></I></FONT><I><B>  After spending 9 months with her cousins and Ida, Norma Jeane goes to live with Ana Lower, an old aunt of Grace. </B></I><I><B>Norma Jeane becomes very fond of Ana Lower, they become very close. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>  As for her education, after finishing elementary School, Norma Jeane attends the Emmerson Jr High and the University High.</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="4b2f2cf0.jpg" border=0 width="242" height="207" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>NJ with Ana Lower</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>June 1st:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                         </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>She goes to San Fransisco to visit her mother in the State Hospital.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="668b1e90.jpg" border=0 width="177" height="233" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>  </B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>1942:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>June 19th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF33FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>              </B></I><I><B>      </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>  Norma Jeane quits school and g</B></I><I><B>ets married to James Daugherty, a 21-year-old aircraft worker. </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I><I><B> (A few months ago the Goddards had moved to West Virginia, and Ana Lower decided it was too great a resposibility for her to continue to raise Norma Jeane all on her own, without any aid from Grace. Norma Jeane seemed to have no alternative than to go back to the orphanage. Grace thought of a solution: marriage. Years later, Marilyn said: "Grace arranged the marriage for me; I never had a choice. There's not much to say about it. They couldn't support me and they had to work out something. And so I got married". The young couple didn't spend much time together though: James Dougherty joined the army and so most of their marriage days they spent apart from each </B></I><B>o</B><I><B>ther).</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>1944:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Norma Jeane gets a job at Radioplane Co. at Metropolitan Airport, as a parachute worker.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>1945:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>January:</B></I></FONT><B> </B></div> <div> <B>                   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Norma Jeane quits her job at Radioplane Co. </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>(That job had given her the chance to become a model. One day, David Conover and some other Army photographers arrived at Radioplane in order to take some moving pictures for Army training. Conover noticed Norma Jeane, took many pictures of her and told her that she should "definitely go into modelling profession". At first, Norma Jeane thought he was putting her own, but later she thought that "..maybe Conover wasn't kidding about how I ought to be a model".).</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4afe61c0.jpg" border=0 width="230" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="66ae1100.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I>At Radioplane</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>June 16th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>                     </B></FONT><B> </B><I><B>Norma Jeane's first professional photosession as a model takes place.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>July 2nd:</B></I></FONT><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                   </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Norma Jeane fills in an application card for the "Blue Book Modelling Agency"</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4be13c50.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="4c0bbfa0.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>                                                                        </B></FONT><B> </B>  <I>Her first cover.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>1946:</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>March 11th:</B></I></FONT><B> </B><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                        </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Helen "Bunny" Ainsworth, the West Coast representative of the "National Artists' Talent Agency", signs Norma Jeane to the agency. Harry Lipton is appointed as her motion picture representative.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>May 14th: </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                      </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Norma Jeane moves to Las Vegas, Nevada in order to file for a divorce from James Dougherty.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>June 19th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>                    </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>   Norma Jeane walks through the gates of the 20th Century Fox for the first time: she's going to have her first screen test. She has already dyed her hair blonde.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="739cb190.gif" border=0 width="203" height="281" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="782f2c10.jpg" border=0 width="242" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>Photos from her 1st screentest</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>July 5th:</B></I></FONT><B> </B></div> <div> <B>                </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Norma Jeane files for the divorce.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>July 29th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>                      </B></I><I><B>   The following extract appears in Hedda Hopper's column: "Howard Hughes is on the mend. Picking up a magazine, he was attracted by the cover girl and promptly instructed an aide to sign her for pictures. She's Norma Jeane Dougherty, a model".</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="66cdc190.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="281" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">        <IMG SRC="66eea300.jpg" border=0 width="234" height="304" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I>    Norma Jeane's first modelling jobs</I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>August 24th:</B></I><I><B> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>                         </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> Norma Jeane signs her first contract with 20th Century Fox. Her first salary is $75 a week. From now on, she will start using the name Marilyn Monroe.</B></I></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="4c4eb200.jpg" border=0 width="235" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> MM with other newly hired at Fox</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>September 13th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <B>                                </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Norma Jeane's divorce is granted.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>1947:</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>February 10th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <B>                             </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>  Marilyn signs a 6-month renewal contract with Fox.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>August 25th:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>                       </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF66CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>   Marilyn's contract with Fox expires and the Studio doesn't renew it.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="All About...Marilyn "><U><I><B><U>All about .. 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