Marilyn Monroe
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When Norma Jean was a baby, she was watched at times by her maternal grandmother, but she died Aug 1927. Then Gladys apparently gave her to the custody of the Bollinger couple who raised her for a number of years. Why Gladys did this isn't quite clear. 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, 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 to a psychiatric hospital, and Grace was made both guardian of Norma Jean and custodian of Glady's estate. It's not yet clear if Gladys was committed first to Agnews' State, but that is where she resided later, when she was finally released just WWII was ending. 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. | When Norma Jean was a baby, she was watched at times by her maternal grandmother, but she died Aug 1927. Then Gladys apparently gave her to the custody of the Bollinger couple who raised her for a number of years. Why Gladys did this isn't quite clear. 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, 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 to a psychiatric hospital, and Grace was made both guardian of Norma Jean and custodian of Glady's estate. It's not yet clear if Gladys was committed first to Agnews' State, but that is where she resided later, when she was finally released just WWII was ending. 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. | ||
| − | In particular, Norma | + | In particular, evidently shortly after Grace married Ervin, she sent Norma to the Los Angeles Orphans' Home from September 1935 to June 1937. Whatever caused this displacement must have later been corrected, as Grace took Norma back out of the orphanage at the end of this time. |
===First marriage=== | ===First marriage=== | ||
