Marilyn Monroe

It's also confusing that apparently Gladys was living with the Bolenders as they are all reported together, in one house in the 1930 census.  Some biographers has mistakeningly suggested that the Bolenders were a "foster family", but in today's terms we would call this "full-time child care", where the parent still retains legal custody.

It's also confusing that apparently Gladys was living with the Bolenders as they are all reported together, in one house in the 1930 census.  Some biographers has mistakeningly suggested that the Bolenders were a "foster family", but in today's terms we would call this "full-time child care", where the parent still retains legal custody.

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.