" I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful"
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926. Her mother's name was Gladys Baker Mortensen. Baker being the name of her other two children and Mortensen the name of her last husband who disappeared just months after their marriage in 1924. Although Edward Mortensen was Gladys' husband at the time of Norma's birth, he was not her father. No one knows for sure who her father was, but it was believed that it was Gladys' lover C. Stanley Gifford .
At just six months old, Norma Jeane was placed in a foster home because her mother was placed in an insane asylum for her mental breakdowns. In 1935, at age nine, she entered an orphanage and stayed there for two years. On the whole her childhood appears to have been passed in the care of people with comfortable homes and surroundings (Andersen 1994).
Her teenage ambition were set on becoming a starlet or pin-up that she saw in magazines. She did not think she has......

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