Marilyn Monroe

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at the film lab
just to make ends meet. She became very tired and nervous;
life became difficult for her. She had been sent to the
Norwalk State hospital for Mental Diseases for a rest when
Marilyn was only five years old. That was what caused her
to have a nervous breakdown and that is what caused
Marilyn to spend her childhood in and out of foster homes.
When Gladys first went to the hospital, Marilyn moved in
with her mother’s best friend.

When her mom’s best friend remarried, she told Marilyn that
her house was too small and someone had to go. Marilyn
was only nine years old then. So one day, she packed
Marilyn’s clothes in a suitcase and they got in her car. They
drove and drove for a long time without telling Marilyn
where she was going. They finally arrived at a three-story
red-brick building. Marilyn looked up at the sign and it said
LOS ANGELES ORPHANS HOME. Marilyn told her, “Please
don’t let me stay here. I’m not an orphan, my mother’s not
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She did believe the mind could
achieve anything it wished to achieve.”
Marilyn had problems with her diction when she went
to High School. She also stuttered a lot. No one really
knew, but her mother bought her a piano that belonged to
the famous actor Fredric March.
Marilyn Monroe always looked older than her age.
When she was only ten, she shot up to her full height 5’5”,
except she was skinny and looked boyish. At thirteen
everyone said that she looked eighteen, and the boys in their
twenties were trying to date her.

Just three weeks after her sixteenth birthday, she was
married to the boy next door, Jim Dougherty. He was
tweny-one going on twenty-two. They ...

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