Childhood of Marilyn Monroe

Childhood of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson [ [http://www.geocities.com/marilynmonroesplace/birth.jpgBirth Certificate] ] on June 1, 1926, in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. [http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/bio.html Marilyn Monroe's Official Web site .::. Biography ] ] [ [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552273/Monroe_Marilyn.html Marilyn Monroe - MSN Encarta ] ] According to biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles, her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, had her baptised Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson. She obtained an order from the City Court of the State of New York and legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe on February 23, 1956. [ [http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/facts.html Marilyn Monroe's Official Web site .::. Fast Facts ] ]

Her mother

Monroe's maternal grandparents were Otis Elmer Monroe and Della Mae Hogan. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, was born in Porfirio Diaz, Mexico, now known as Piedras Negras, on May 27 1902 [ [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ssdi%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Gladys&gsln=Eley&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&ufr=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=5&recid=19890451&recoff=1+2 Social Security Death Index] showing "Gladys Eley, last residence Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, Born: 27 May 1900, Died: Mar 1984, SSN issued by Oregon (Before 1951)"] where the family had gone, so Otis could work on the railroad. The family returned to California where Gladys's brother Otis was born in 1905. Their father, suffering from syphilis that had invaded his brain, died in 1909 in Southern California State Hospital in San Bernardino County. [ [http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/picdata/CA/deaths/190_/html/CA___de90_MONROE-1.htm California Death Index (on microfilm) 1905-1929] on vitalsearch-ca.com showing "Otis Monroe, age 44, died 22 July 1909. San Bernardino County"] Gladys married Jasper Baker, a native of Kentucky, in May 1917 and had two children, Robert Kermit Baker (born January 24, 1918) and Berniece Baker (Miracle) (born July 30, 1919). They were both born in Los Angeles. [* [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f2=&f1=Baker&sx=&f9=Los+Angeles&f5=&f4=&rg_f3__date=&rs_f3__date=0&f6=&f7=Monroe&gskw=&prox=1&db=cabirth1905&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 California Birth Index] showing Berniece and "Hermitt" [as listed] .] [ [http://www.ancestry.com/search/io/browse.asp?c=3&state=California&county=Los+Angeles&township=Venice&ed=621&roll=T625_120&STAbrv=CA&start

] showing "Jasper N Baker, 31 b KY; Gladys 18 b Mexico; Hermit 1 11/12 b CA; Berneice 2/12 b CA; Audry, brother, 18, b KY
] After Gladys and Jasper divorced, he kidnapped the children and moved to Kentucky, where he had been born, according to Miracle's book "My Sister Marilyn". Gladys moved there to be near her children but later returned to Los Angeles. Her son died without her ever seeing him again, but she did reunite with her daughter many years later.

Her father

Marilyn's birth father remains unclear. After Gladys returned to Los Angeles, she married Martin Edward Mortensen (1897-1981) on October 11, 1924. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Birth of Marilyn Monroe Shown to Be Legitimate |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DC1639F930A25751C0A967948260 |quote= Eighteen years after Marilyn Monroe's death, the widely held belief that the movie star was born illegitimate has been disproved. Authorities say they have found copies of her birth certificate at the home of a dead man they believe was her father. Martin Edward Mortensen, 85 years old, died on Tuesday, apparently of a heart attack, Lisle Ford, a Riverside County coroner's investigator, said. He said that he had found copies of Monroe's birth certificate at Mortensen's apartment, as well as marriage and divorce papers for Mortensen and Gladys Baker, Monroe's mother. The birth certificate states that Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. Her father is listed as Edward Mortensen, address unknown, age 29. Monroe died in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962, apparently a suicide from an overdose of barbiturates. |publisher=Associated Press |date=February 13, 1981 |accessdate = 2007-07-21 ] They separated six months into their marriage, but the divorce wasn't finalized until over a year later, according to "My Sister Marilyn". Martin's father, also named Martin, was born in Haugesund, Norway, and had immigrated to the United States about 1880 where he married Stella Higgins. Their son was born in Vallejo, California. [ [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Mortensen&sx=y&f1=California&f2=&f3=&f20=&f16=26&f15=Feb&rg_f14__date=1897&rs_f14__date=0&f18=&gskw=&prox=1&db=ww1draft&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=1251388&recoff=3+15+19+20+31 World War I Draft Registration Card] showing "Edward M Mortensen, born 26 February 1897, in Vallejo, California; Gas Fitter for LA Gas & Electric Corp, father born in Haugesund, Norway, mother Stella; registered in Los Angeles County, California 5 June 1918."]

Biographer Donald H. Wolfe in "The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe", writes his belief that Norma Jeane's biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for RKO Pictures where Gladys worked as a film-cutter. Monroe's birth certificate lists Gladys's second husband, Martin Edward Mortensen, as the father. Although Mortensen left Gladys before Norma Jeane's birth, some biographers think he may have been the father. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,,500022,00.html Marilyn Monroe | News | guardian.co.uk ] ] In an interview with Lifetime, James Dougherty, Monroe's first husband, said Norma Jeane believed that Gifford was her father. Whoever the father was, he played no part in Monroe's life.

Foster parents

Unable to persuade Della to take Norma Jeane, Gladys placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven. In her autobiography "My Story", Monroe states she thought Albert was a girl.

One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house. A few months after they had moved in, Gladys suffered a breakdown. In "My Story", Monroe recalls her mother "screaming and laughing" as she was forcibly removed to the State Hospital in Norwalk. According to "My Sister Marilyn", Gladys's brother, Marion, hanged himself upon his release from an asylum, and Della's father did the same in a fit of depression.

Norma Jeane was declared a ward of state, and Gladys' best friend, Grace McKee (later Goddard) became her guardian. After McKee married in 1935, Norma Jeane was sent to the Los Angeles Orphans Home (later renamed Hollygrove), and then to a succession of foster homes.

The Goddards were about to move to the east coast and could not take her. Grace approached the mother of James Dougherty about the possibility of her son marrying the girl. They married weeks after she turned 16, so that Norma Jeane would not have to return to an orphanage or foster care.

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