Marilyn Monroe
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Jasper returned to Kentucky where he was from, kidnapping the children. For a short time, Gladys lived in Kentucky, but after another confrontation, she left for California, and would not again see her daughter for twenty years. When Norma Jean was 19, she finally met her half-family (see [http://www.monaraemiracle.com/work1.htm Mona Miracle's website]). | Jasper returned to Kentucky where he was from, kidnapping the children. For a short time, Gladys lived in Kentucky, but after another confrontation, she left for California, and would not again see her daughter for twenty years. When Norma Jean was 19, she finally met her half-family (see [http://www.monaraemiracle.com/work1.htm Mona Miracle's website]). | ||
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| + | Gladys next married to Martin Edward Mortensen (b 1897) but seperated from him, moving in with her good friend and co-worker Grace Atchison McKee, a divorced woman. When Norma Jean was young, her mother, working in the film industry, had made enough money to afford a down-payment on a house. They only lived there for a few months when Gladys apparently had some kind of psychotic episode. She was committed to a psychiatric hospital, and Grace was made both guardian of Norma Jean and custodian of Glady's estate. | ||
Norma Jean married first on 19 Jun 1942 to James Dougherty (he has recently died). Before his death, James wrote a book about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. They moved to Catalina Island where they are living in 1944 and where "Jimmie" is training for the merchant marine. While James was away fighting in World War II, Marilyn took a job working at the Radioplane factory, and moved in with his parents. It was at this job where she was first commercially photographed for an article in YANK article. | Norma Jean married first on 19 Jun 1942 to James Dougherty (he has recently died). Before his death, James wrote a book about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. They moved to Catalina Island where they are living in 1944 and where "Jimmie" is training for the merchant marine. While James was away fighting in World War II, Marilyn took a job working at the Radioplane factory, and moved in with his parents. It was at this job where she was first commercially photographed for an article in YANK article. | ||
