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  Marilyn Monroe.com :: The Official Web site of Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane verbrachte die meiste Zeit ihrer Kindheit in Pfelegeheimen und Waisenhäusern, bis sie im Jahr 1937 bei einer Freundin der Familie namens Grace McKee Goddard aufgenommen wurde.
Norma Jeane hatte nun zwei Möglichkeiten: zurück ins Waisenhaus gehen oder heiraten.
Conover nahm sie für seine Aufnahme und fing an, ihr Modelaufträge zuzusenden.
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  Marilyn Monroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital.
Norma Jeane was declared a ward of state and Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee (later Goddard) became her guardian.
After McKee married in 1935, Norma Jeane was sent to a Los Angeles orphanage and then to a succession of foster homes where she was allegedly subjected to abuse and neglect.
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 Bedazzled Marilyn Monroe Star History
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker.
Norma Jeane spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages until 1937, when she moved in with family friend Grace McKee Goddard.
Norma Jeane divorced Jimmy in June of 1946, and signed her first studio contract with Twentieth Century Fox on August 26, 1946.
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 Breck Stewart: Official Site.
In a way, "Marilyn Monroe" is a fictitious entity that "Norma Jean Baker" created with her dreams of stardom.
The real Marilyn is the kid known as "Norma Jean Mortenson Baker", hurt and neglected by countless adult figures in her life, who never really had the ability to grow up and become a real adult woman.
But Norma Jean was always there, hurt, confused, feeling rejected and abandoned and no amount of fame or money could ever heal that little girl's wounds.
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 Norma Jean And Marilyn Review | TVGuide.com
Norma Jean makes no secret of the fact that she will do whatever is necessary to become a Hollywood star, including sleeping with anyone who can further her career.
Norma Jean remains as a presence who advises Marilyn on her career, beating back her confused emotions, and encouraging her to be hard-headed and practical.
The strategy of having Norma Jean and Marilyn portrayed by two different actresses, who appear on screen together to verbalize her inner turmoil, has some basis in fact: Monroe did complain of hearing voices in her head telling her what to do.
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 MARILYN MONROE (Biografie - Lebenslauf)
Norma Jean hatte zwei Halbschwestern, die aber bei ihrem Vater lebten.
Er nannte Norma Jean ein "fotografisches Wunder" und vermittelte ihr verschiedene Aufträge als Fotomodell.
Norma Jean nannte sich nun Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn nach der Schauspielerin Marilyn Miller und Monroe nach dem Mädchennamen ihrer Mutter).
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 Marilyn Monroe Biography (1926–62) (stage name of Norma Jean Mortenson or Baker) Online Encyclopedia Article About ...
For most of her childhood and teenage years she was in foster homes or an orphanage because her father abandoned her, while her mother, Gladys Monroe Baker, had to work and then was in a mental hospital.
(Norma Jean grew up using her mother's last name, Baker, and at age 16 discovered that her father was probably not Mortenson.) In 1942 she married James Dougherty (1921–2005), an aircraft factory worker, and when he went to sea in the merchant marine she took a job in a target aeroplane factory.
She took her own life with an overdose of barbiturates, and after several years in which she was discussed almost entirely in terms of a sex goddess, she came to be perceived as a symbol of the exploitation of women by Hollywood and men in general.
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*Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson and waslater baptized as Norma Jean Baker.
Her mother was Gladys Baker and no one issure of the identity of her father.
She was left behind,when the family had to move to the east coast and could not take sixteen yearold Norma Jeane with her.
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 Biography- marilyn-monroe - AOL Research & Learn
Norma Jean Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe, experienced a disrupted, loveless childhood that included two years at an orphanage.
When Norma Jean, born on June 1, 1926, was seven years old her mother, Gladys (Monroe) Baker Mortenson, was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and hospitalized.
During the war years Norma Jean worked at the Radio Plane Company in Van Nuys, California, but she was soon discovered by photographers.
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Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson at 9:30 in the morning on 1 June 1926 in the Charity Ward of Los Angeles General Hospital.
Grace was captivated by Jean Harlow, a superstar of the twenties, and Marilyn would later say...and so Jean Harlow was my idol Grace was to marry in 1935 and due to financial difficulties, Norma Jeane was placed in an orphanage from September 1935 to June 1937.
Norma Jeane, while working in a factory inspecting parachutes in 1944, was photographed by the Army as a promotion to show women on the assembly contributing to the war effort.
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 Marilyn Monroe/Madonna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Grace was to marry in 1935 and due to financial difficulties, Norma Jeane was placed in an orphanage from September 1935 to June 1937.
In September 1941 Norma Jeane was again living with Grace when she met Jim Dougherty, 5 years her senior.
After a year of marriage, Dougherty joined the Merchant Marines and in 1944 Norma Jeane began working in a parachute factory for some extra money and was photographed by the army as a promotion to show woman on the assembly line contributing for the war effort.
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 Marilyn Monroe
She was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles, California, but later took her mother's name Baker and called herself Norma Jean Baker.
Passed among several homes as a girl, sexually abused as a teenager, Norma Jean thought little of herself.
A story that Marilyn Monroe was born with six toes resulted from the publication of photographs taken by the photographer Joseph Jasgur[?] in March 1946.
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 Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde: Una Novela Sobre Marilyn Monroe Reviews at Shopping.com
Norma Jean is then married off by her foster mother to Bucky Glazer.
Norma Jean never knew who her father was and spent her life wanting to know him.
Norma Jean cannot believe that the woman one the screen is her, she thinks it is a fake.
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Her mother, Gladys Baker, did not know the identity of Norma’s father, so her name was changed to Norma Jean Baker at baptism.
At the age of 16, Norma was left with a difficult choice.Grace was moving to the East Coast with her husband, Norma could either go back to the orphanage or get married.
In June of 1946 the divorce was final, Norma Jean died her hair blond and legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe after her Grandmother.
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 Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Blonde, Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mortenson, aren't you even going to have look a at your beautiful little girl?" "Are you sure I'm the mother?" she asks.
She's smoking a cigarette, and explains that "Norma" was for Norma Talmadge, "Jean" for Jean Harlow, and Baker "was the husband I hated the least." Then young Norma Jean is playing on the beach with her grandmother.
To give you an idea of what Norma Jean's family is like, her grandmother is played by Ann-Margret, while Nutty Mother is played by the actress who was the mom on Home Improvement.
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 Classics Remembered - Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jean was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles.
Norma Jean had endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse (she was almost raped when she was six years old) and years in foster homes and orphanages after her mother, suffering from a nervous breakdown, was institutionalized.
Ben Lyon of 20th Century-Fox, however, beat Hughes to the punch, signing Norma Jean Baker to a contract and changing her name to Marilyn Monroe.
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 Marilyn Monroe - VIP Report Samples - All Sample Reports - Astrodienst
An illegitimate child whose father (Edward Mortenson) had deserted her mother (Gladys Baker, née Monroe) before she was born, Norma Jean endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse (at the age of eight) and years in foster homes and orphanages after her mother suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized.
Norma Jean then began modeling bathing suits and, after bleaching her hair blonde, began posing for pinups and glamour photos.
Howard Hughes saw some of her photographs and expressed an interest in giving her a screen test for RKO, but Ben Lyon of 20th Century-Fox beat Hughes to the punch, signing Norma Jean Baker to a contract and changing her name to Marilyn Monroe.
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 Marilyn Monroe :: marilyn monroe norma jean baker born june 1st 1926 said came unhappy deprived childhood galdys mother ...
Norma Jean Baker was born on June 1st 1926.
Her father died in a car accident soon after she was born and at the age of 26 Galdys remarried to Edward Mortenson.
In an interview Norma said that her grandmother tried to "mother" her with a pillow and how she was forced to do the dishes (at age 5) in an orphanage and that she was abused in one of the families that she was adopted by, and the fact that she was raped by a policeman.
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 Norma Jean
Young, fresh-faced and lovely, teenage Norma Jeane would one day become the most photographed face in the world.
Before she was Marilyn, she was Norma Jeane Mortenson, born June 1, 1926.
She was more commonly known as Norma Jean Baker.
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 Marilyn Monroe | Ados.fr
Elle est Norma Jean, de son vrai nom, une brunette, devenue femme fatale, objet de tous les désirs grâce à une décoloration et à une soufflerie gonflant sa robe d’air et dévoilant ses jambes.
Norma Jean semble avoir hérité de sa mère une santé mentale fragile, mais en attendant, la jeune fille devenue blonde met ses 19 ans sous les flashs d’André de Dienes, son amant, photographe et Pygmalion.
Dépressive, la Norma Jean d’Elton John s’éteint comme une bougie dans le vent, à l’âge de 36 ans, le 5 août 1962.
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For most of her childhood and teen years she was in foster homes or an orphanage because her father abandoned her, while her mother, Gladys Monroe Baker, had to work and then was in a mental hospital.
(Norma Jean grew up using her mother's last name, Baker, and at age 16 discovered that her father was probably not Mortenson.).
Marilyn listed her Mother's place of origin on her marriage certificate, as the country of Mexico.
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 Marilyn Monroe Norma Jeane Baker
Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the fathers address as unknown.
Due to her mother's mental instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in the foster home of Albert and Ida Bolender.
In 1933, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her mother.
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 Life of a Starlet
Born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, she was destined to become the most famous woman of the twentieth century.
Her paternity is unknown, and so she was baptised with her mother's last name as Norma Jean Baker.
Grace's husband was transferred to the east coast in 1942, and they were financially unable to keep 16 year old Norma Jean.
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 Marilyn Monroe at Classic Movie Stars
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson, on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles.
(Norma Jean grew up using her mother's last name, Baker, and at age 16 discovered that her father was probably not Mortenson.) In 1942 she married James Dougherty, an aircraft factory worker, and when he went to sea in the merchant marine she took a job in a target airplane factory.
Asked to model to illustrate an article in Yank magazine, she soon quit her job to become a full-time model and in 1946, after divorcing Dougherty, she went to Hollywood to try to become an actress.
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 Marilyn Monroe Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Gladys Baker, Marilyn's mother, was released from a sanitarium years after Marilyn's death.
She was never certain who Marilyn Monroe or Norma Jeane were when asked.
A myth that Marilyn Monroe was born with six toes resulted from the publication of photographs taken by the photographer Joseph Jasgur in March 1946.
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 Biography & Filmography
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926.
By 1945, Norma Jeane Dougherty’s glowing beauty had made her immensely popular, and she graced the covers of 33 major magazines.
Soon after signing with Fox, Norma Jeane began using the name ‘Marilyn Monroe.’ The last name was her grandmother's and the first name was copied from the actress Marilyn Miller.
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Her most notable work is a watercolor botanical of a red rose, inscribed to President John F. Kennedy for his birthday.
Born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker (previously Mortenson), Marilyn never knew the true identity of her father and was baptized Norma Jeane Baker.
Norma Jeane spent most of her childhood in foster homes and or (showing 500 of 2841 characters).
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 AbfiMagazine.com - Celebrities, imporatant, influential and rich people
Her father, mother and one of her brothers were tortured and killed by government forces during the civil war.
Marilyn was born in Los Angeles as Norma Jean Baker or Mortenson on 5 August 1926.
She endured a troubled childhood of neglect, sexual abuse and was placed in foster homes after her mother was institutionalised for a nervous breakdown.
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