Authors: Michelle Morgan
Walmsley, Gene
290
Ward, Horace
260
Warner, Jack
260
Wattis, Richard
236
Wayne, John
142
Webb, Clifton
188
We’re Not Married
(film)
142
Wexler, Milton
343
Whitman, Walt
253
Whitten, Gladys
193
Widmark, Richard
140
Wilder, Billy
189
,
271
,
273
,
274
,
343
Willett, Frank
78–9
Willett, Kirby
33–4
William Morris Agency
111
,
112
,
113
Williams, Frank
223
Willinger, Lazlo
72
Wilson, Harry Charles
19
Winchell, Walter
173
Winer, Albert
211
Wisdom, Norman
254
Woodward, Joanne
308
Wright, Frank Lloyd
269
‘Wrong Door Raid’
200–1
Wyman, Jane
199
Zanuck, Darryl F.
92
,
122
,
137
,
140
,
175
,
178
Zec, Donald
226
Zernial, Gus
144–5
A Stylish Gladys Pearl Baker, nee Monroe – Norma Jeane’s mother. She was a troubled woman and spent most of her life in institutions.
(from the collection of Greg Schreiner)
C. Stanley Gifford was the man most believed to be Norma Jeane’s father. Marilyn tried on various occasions to visit him at his dairy farm in Hemet, but was turned away every time.
(from the collection of Eric Woodard)
A rare beach outing for Norman Jeane
(left)
with her mother, Gladys
(behind)
. Despite being raised in foster homes, she did occasionally see and live with her mother, though a close bond was never formed.
(unknown photographer)
Life at the Los Angeles Orphans Home was firm but fair. Here the children watch a flag being raised outside the building, during the time that Norma Jeane lived there.
(from the collection of George and Even Finch)
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Norma Jeane, photographed just after she left the orphanage, aged about ten, during the time she lived in Barbara Court with her foster mother Grace Goddard.
(unknown photographer)
In September 1938, Norma Jeane moved into ‘Aunt’ Ana’s home at 11348 Nebraska Avenue, where this photo was taken. She began to make friends, among them Ana’s nephew, Max Ritchie, who took this photograph.
(from the collection of April and Jim Dakis)
When she hit her teens, Norma Jeane’s figure started to fill out and she was noticed by boys and girls alike.
(unknown photographer)
Mr and Mrs Dougherty, circa 1943, posing happily on the Island of Catalina, shortly before Jim left to fight for his country.
(from the collection of paul kanteman)
In 1945, photographer William Carroll was looking for a model to use in an advertising counter display. He hired Norma Jeane, seen here with a huge smile on her face.
(William Carroll)
Bill Pursel in the late 1940s, round the time he and Norma Jeane were dating. The two met in 1946, while Norma Jeane was in Las Vegas obtaining her divorce from Jim Dougherty, and they were to remain close for the next four years.
(from the collection of Bill Pursel)