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Marilyn Monroe ( June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress of the 20th century. Her sizzling screen presence and premature death would make her a perennial sex symbol and later a pop icon. 1 Early life
She was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in the charity ward of Los Angeles County Hospital (now County-USC) in Los Angeles. Her grandmother, Della, later had her baptized Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson. While biographers agree the man listed on her birth certificate, Martin Edward Mortensen, was not her biological father, her paternity has never been firmly established. The most likely candidate seems to be Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Gladys, worked as a film-cutter. The just-divorced Gifford had no desire to be tied down and left Gladys when she informed him of her pregnancy.
Unable to persuade Della to take the baby, an overwhelmed Gladys placed Norma Jeane with Wayne and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, where she lived until she was seven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parents. In her autobiography, My Story, ghostwritten by Ben HechtBen Hecht ( February 28, 1894 April 18, 1964) was one of the most prolific of all Hollywood screenwriters, even though he professed hatred and disdain for the motion picture industry. Life and Hollywood Hecht was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and as a youn, Marilyn said she thought Wayne and Ida were her parents until Ida, rather cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
According to My Story, Gladys visited Norma Jeane every Saturday, but never hugged or kissed her, or even smiled. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house for them. A few months after moving in, she suffered a breakdown. Marilyn recalled Gladys "screaming and laughing" as she was forcibly removed to the State Mental Hospital in NorwalkNorwalk is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 103,298. Geography Norwalk is located at 33°54'25" North, 118°5'0" West (33. 906914, -118. According to the United States, where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near San BernardinoSan Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 185,401. It is nicknamed San Berdoo which is generally taken as an insult by residents in the same way "Frisco.
Norma Jeane was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guardian. After Grace married in 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo, Norma Jeane was sent to Los Angeles Orphanage, then to as many as twelve foster homes, in which she was subjected to abuse and neglect. Then in September 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, Grace took her in again. She was then introduced to a neighbor's son, James Dougherty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the East CoastThe East Coast (also known as the Eastern Seaboard is a term referencing the easternmost coastal states in the United States of America. It includes all thirteen original colonies, as well as such selected places as Washington, DC, Florida and Vermont. and felt marriage would be the best solution for the teenaged Norma Jeane. Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-humanIn Thus spake Zarathustra (in German, Also sprach Zarathustra , the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche explains the three steps through which man can become an bermensch (literally, 'overman'): # By his will to destruction # By re-evaluating or destro drive. She was very intelligent and more unhappy than her screen image suggested. Some say she was a Genus
