California child protection laws prevented the Goddards from taking Monroe out of state, and she faced having to return to the orphanage. As a solution, she married their neighbors' 21-year-old son, factory worker James Dougherty, on June 19, 1942, just after her 16th birthday.
LAPD policeman James Dougherty was Monroe's first husband. On June 19, 1942, Monroe married Dougherty, then 21, when she was 16 years old. Schani Krug, producer of the documentary “Marilyn's Man” about Dougherty, spoke to NPR about their relationship in 2005, after Dougherty death at the age of 81.
1942: Marilyn's First Marriage
Marilyn Monroe wed her high school sweetheart, James Dougherty, in 1942. Monroe, then known as Norma Jean Baker, met Dougherty while living with a family friend in Los Angeles, California. The couple married just after her 16th birthday, after dating for a few months.
The match was not meant to be. Monroe filed for divorce in October 1954, after only nine months of marriage. Having returned to Los Angeles from filming The Seven Year Itch with its famous skirt-blowing scene in New York City, she cited “mental cruelty” as a reason for divorce from DiMaggio, according to WWD.
Marilyn Monroe and James Dougherty were married from 1942 to 1946. At the time of their nuptials, Monroe was 16 years old while her first husband was 21 years old. Dougherty was an American police officer and the first trainer of the Special Weapons and Tactics.
Her first husband, James Dougherty, as well as Arthur Miller, her second, chose not to attend. And Marilyn=s mother, confined to a sanitarium, never learned of her daughter=s death. In fact, she seemed after some time not even to be sure who Norma Jean had been.
Does Marilyn have any children? No. Although Marilyn was married three times (first to James Dougherty, followed by baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller), she did not have any children before her death in 1962.
Marilyn is thought to have suffered from endometriosis.
Specifically, the condition may have contributed to her multiple miscarriages. "Her fertility issues have long been attributed to endometriosis," Vogel said, per USA Today. "It was largely misunderstood during those times, so it often went untreated.
On the night of August 4, 1962, her friend Peter Lawford spoke to Monroe for what would be the last time. According to police reports from 1962, released in 1985, Lawford sensed “something was wrong” when he spoke to the star on the phone that evening.
Marilyn Monroe (/ˈmærəlɪn mənˈroʊ/; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.
Her father was nowhere to be found. Baker didn't have the money to take care of Monroe, so she shuttled the child between orphanages and foster homes. After Baker was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and institutionalized in 1934, family friend Grace Goddard took charge of Monroe's upbringing.
Though Marilyn didn't have any children, she had been pregnant at least three times with Arthur according to Netflix's 2022 documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes. She first became pregnant in 1956, but lost the baby to a miscarriage.
"Marilyn loved children and she was desperate to be a mother. Sadly, she never carried a baby to term."
The actress, who was best known for movies like Niagara (1953), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959), and more, had a unique 'breathy' voice with a distinct accent. According to Vogue, Monroe's voice accentuated the audible sound of her breathing.
Well, as a public, we knew that Marilyn and Elvis had met once at on set at Paramount Studios in June 1960.
Gifford was proven to be the late screen legend's father via DNA testing, and the discovery will be explored in the upcoming documentary Marilyn, Her Final Secret, according to Variety.
Officially, her dad was listed as Martin Edward Mortensen – the man to whom Gladys was previously married – but it seems that he was not actually her real father and had in fact separated from Gladys long before Norma Jeane was born.
Monroe's natural eye color was most likely to be blue, as recorded in her sister's autobiography (48) – “but our eyes were different … Norma Jeane's were blue like our mother's” – and on her autopsy report (49), in addition to Capote's description of her “blue-grey eyes” while wearing glasses (46).
THE last living relative to have known Marilyn Monroe has changed her name and spent the last decade living out of the public eye in a retirement village. Mona Rae Miracle, now Booth, is the daughter of the legendary actress' only sister, Berniece Baker Miracle.
75 percent of Monroe's intellectual property and estate were left to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg, and the remaining 25 percent was given to her New York psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris.
Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956. The marriage lasted five years.
She married her final husband, Arthur Miller, in 1956.
Marilyn was pregnant at least three times during their marriage, but she miscarried each time, and they never had any children. She died shortly after their divorce at the age of 36.