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Still, she found her way, and a series of impressive turns in early films like 1952’s “Clash By Night” and 1953’s “Niagara,” along with a booming modeling career that found her on magazine covers worldwide, pushed her ever closer toward fame.Īfter Monroe became a superstar, she developed deeper relationships with men who supposedly cared for her but fell short.īaseball great Joe DiMaggio, her second husband, helped her in many ways, opening his door to her in times of need. She refused, and her contract was not renewed. As a result of this arrangement, Schenck called in a favor and landed Monroe her first Hollywood contract, a six-month deal with Columbia Pictures in 1948 that ignited her career.īut she was also exploited at Columbia, where founder and president Harry Cohn gave her an ultimatum, demanding she have sex with him right there in his office. According to one friend, she had an agreement with Joe Schenck, the 69-year-old chairman of 20th Century Fox, where she would “service” him whenever he phoned. Laughter hid her fury.”Īs an aspiring actress, Monroe was at the mercy of sexual extortionists. Marilyn, Welles said, laughed with the others at this indignity.
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The movie star often told of men holding her down to attack her at Hollywood parties, and Orson Welles recalled one soiree where “Marilyn was surrounded by men and one reached out and tore off her top, revealing her breasts. Monroe’s “relationship” with her father was the catalyst for a string of problematic and even disturbing encounters with men. “At a Manhattan party,” Casillo writes, “Marilyn confessed that she longed to ‘put on a black wig, pick up her father in a bar and make love to him.’ Afterward she would ask, ‘How do you feel now that you have a daughter that you’ve made love to?’ ” It also led her to dark places, as she never stopped hoping for Gifford’s approval and affection in her own way. Call my lawyer.” A close friend later said the incident crushed her emotionally. “Look, I’m married and I have a family,” he said. While still an up-and-coming actress in 1952, she tracked him down and called, explaining that she was his daughter with Gladys. But attempts to contact him left her cruelly dismissed. While her husband was oversees during World War II, she started a modeling career, was spotted by a Hollywood executive, divorced her husband and became Marilyn Monroe.Īs she started ascending the heights, thoughts of her father were never far behind. In 10th grade, Norma Jeane was living with a family friend who, tired of the responsibility, married her off to an eligible 20-year-old living right next door named Jim Dougherty. Sadly, abuse became a common thread throughout her life, including at the hands of a cousin as well as a boyfriend of a close family friend during childhood. Kimmel” - she used a fake name for him - who called her into his room one night, locked the door, then said, “Now you can’t get out.” Monroe never revealed exactly what happened. She later told of an elderly Englishman named “Mr. It was in a boardinghouse, around age 8, that she was sexually abused for the first time. Less than a week after giving birth to her little girl on June 1, 1926, Gladys Pearl Monroe, who long suffered from mental illness, tried to stab a good friend during a delusional episode. Norma Jeane spent her childhood shuttled from neighbor to family friend to foster home and back, never finding stability. “Norma Jeane would spend a lifetime looking for this man in others, wanting to know him, loving him, passionately wanting him to love her back.” Martin’s Press), out Tuesday.Ĭharles Stanley Gifford had a brief affair with Norma’s mother, Gladys, and when he found out she was pregnant, he rejected her. “Norma Jeane was enthralled by the handsome man staring from the photo with piercing eyes and a thin mustache,” writes Charles Casillo, author of “ Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon” (St. This photo became a totem for her - a symbol of the fatherly love she would spend her life desperately, but fruitlessly, seeking, even after she became the world’s most glamorous movie star, Marilyn Monroe. When Norma Jeane Baker was 8 years old, she saw a picture of her father for the first time.
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