Marilyn Monroe (59 page)

Walmsley, Gene
290

Ward, Horace
260

Warner, Jack
260

Wattis, Richard
236

Wayne, David
137
,
172

Wayne, John
142

Weatherby, W. J.
297–8
,
303

Webb, Clifton
188

Weinstein, Henry
321
,
323
,
327

We’re Not Married
(film)
142

Weston, Mark
206
,
215

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

Willett, Minnie
33
,
34
,
78
,
91

William Morris Agency
111
,
112
,
113

Williams, Frank
223

Willinger, Lazlo
72

Wilson, Colin
255
,
259

Wilson, Earl
117
,
305

Wilson, Harry Charles
19

Winchell, Walter
173

Winer, Albert
211

Winters, Shelley
92
,
132–3

Wisdom, Norman
254

Woodward, Joanne
308

Wright, Frank Lloyd
269

Wright, Loyd
181
,
182
,
184
,
190

‘Wrong Door Raid’
200–1

Wyman, Jane
199

Young, Alan
89–90
,
348–9

Zanuck, Darryl F.
92
,
122
,
137
,
140
,
175
,
178

Zec, Donald
226

Zernial, Gus
144–5

Zolotow, Maurice
32
,
105

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)
.

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)