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Gladys next married to Martin Edward Mortensen (b 1897) on 11 Oct 1924 in Los Angeles, but seperated from him after several months, moving in with her good friend and co-worker Grace Atchison McKee, a divorced woman. Norma Jean was born 1 Jun 1926, Gladys divorce from Martin was not completed until 1927, but they were apparently seperated for some time before this, and Gladys was dating other men, as reported by a few biographers. One theory is that Norma's real father was a married man named Stanley Gifford. | Gladys next married to Martin Edward Mortensen (b 1897) on 11 Oct 1924 in Los Angeles, but seperated from him after several months, moving in with her good friend and co-worker Grace Atchison McKee, a divorced woman. Norma Jean was born 1 Jun 1926, Gladys divorce from Martin was not completed until 1927, but they were apparently seperated for some time before this, and Gladys was dating other men, as reported by a few biographers. One theory is that Norma's real father was a married man named Stanley Gifford. | ||
− | When Norma Jean was a baby, she was watched at times by her maternal grandmother Della, but Della died Aug 1927. Then Gladys apparently gave her to the custody of | + | When Norma Jean was a baby, she was watched at times by her maternal grandmother Della, but Della died Aug 1927. Then Gladys apparently gave her to the custody of her landlords Albert and Ida Bolender who raised her for a number of years. Why Gladys did this isn't quite clear. It's also confusing that apparently Gladys was living with the Bollingers as they are all reported together, in one house in the 1930 census. Possibly biographers have made a mistake here, and the Bollingers weren't exactly a "foster" family, but rather a landlord that happened to also do quite a bit of the early babysitting. |
When Norma Jean was young, her mother, working as a film cutter for RKO, had made enough money to afford a down-payment on a house in the fall of 1933 (see [http://books.google.com/books?id=tDDy91iuO4kC&pg=PT136&dq=%22grace+goddard%22&sig=ExZ5j2_jo3pfP7lBauQnTbxpaxg#PPT23,M1 ''My Sister Marilyn'', page 23]), and took Norma to live with her there. They had only lived there for a few months when Gladys apparently had some kind of psychotic episode. She was committed at first to a psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and Grace was made both guardian of Norma Jean and custodian of Glady's estate. The house and furnishings were sold off except for a piano which was held for Norma by Grace's aunt Ana. Norma also lived off-and-on with Grace and in a few foster homes. Gladys was later transferred to Agnews' State, where she resided, when she was finally released just as WWII was ending. | When Norma Jean was young, her mother, working as a film cutter for RKO, had made enough money to afford a down-payment on a house in the fall of 1933 (see [http://books.google.com/books?id=tDDy91iuO4kC&pg=PT136&dq=%22grace+goddard%22&sig=ExZ5j2_jo3pfP7lBauQnTbxpaxg#PPT23,M1 ''My Sister Marilyn'', page 23]), and took Norma to live with her there. They had only lived there for a few months when Gladys apparently had some kind of psychotic episode. She was committed at first to a psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and Grace was made both guardian of Norma Jean and custodian of Glady's estate. The house and furnishings were sold off except for a piano which was held for Norma by Grace's aunt Ana. Norma also lived off-and-on with Grace and in a few foster homes. Gladys was later transferred to Agnews' State, where she resided, when she was finally released just as WWII was ending. |