When someone mentions Marilyn Monroe, one usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people don’t realize that her disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early death.

Norma Jeane Baker’s father, Edward Mortenson, had deserted her mother, Gladys Baker nee Monroe, before she was born on June, 1 1926, in the charity ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Due to Gladys’ instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in a foster home.

At the age of 7, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her mother. Gladys began to show signs of mental depression, and a year later she was admitted to a rest home. Norma Jeane was then placed with a family friend for a year until being placed in another orphanage for another two years. Norma Jeane was once heard to reflect on this time and say:

“The world around me then was kind of grim...I had to learn to pretend in order to

In January of 1961, Marilyn divorced Arthur Miller. Later in the same year she was reported to be having an affair with John F. Kennedy. She was also reported to have an affair with Bobby Kennedy, the Attorney General. Soon after in 1962, Marilyn began seeing Joe DiMaggio frequently during this time and had finally agreed to remarry him. The wedding date was set for August 8, 1962. Fox rehired her on August 1 to complete “Somethings Got to Give” with a salary of $250,000, which was two and a half times the original amount.

In the fall of 1954 Marilyn and Joe separated... later to divorce. Two years later she married again to a newly divorced Arthur Miller. Soon after her marriage they departed for London so Marilyn could start production on “The Prince and the Showgirl.” She did not return to Hollywood until 1958 to make “Some Like it Hot”. Her heath began to deteriorate due to increased dependency on drugs and involvement in an unhappy marriage. She often came late and was unable to remember her lines.

“Grace Mckee (family friend she was living with) arranged the marriage for me, I never had much of a choice. There’s not much to say about it. They couldn’t support me, and they had to work out something. And so I got married.” (Marilyn Monroe)

“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.” (MarilynMonroeBiography,wysiwg://main.13/http:www.geocities.com/hollywood/bungalow/9690.bio.html) Ben Lyon arranged a screen test and on August 26, 1946, Norma Jeane signed a $125 a week, one y

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