Norma Jean Was Bathed in Moonlight and Naked to the Waist. I Took Her Virginity...
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The pretty teenage girl smiles broadly for the camera, her curly brown hair cascading on to her shoulders and her eyes displaying all the innocence of a young girl in the Forties. Photographed in California, she has the healthy good looks of many of her generation and her charming smile heralds a future full of hope.
This girl would grow up to become one of the world's best-known stars: a sexual icon exploited and abused until the day she died by her own hand. For this is Marilyn Monroe as she has rarely been seen before, when she was still Norma Jean Baker and preparing for her first and largely forgotten marriage to a young factory worker.See the full content of this document
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Norma Jean Was Bathed in Moonlight and Naked to the Waist. I Took Her Virginity...
In the millions of words written about Marilyn and her two famous husbands baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller one man's role has been all but ignored, despite the fact that his affair with her was the longest and most significant of her life.
Jim Dougherty was not a sportsman, politician or movie star. But over five years in the Forties, he became Marilyn's first lover ...See the full content of this document
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