Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (24 page)

Grace Atchinson McKee and Ervin Goddard on their wedding day, 1935. (From the collection of Eleanor Goddard)

Norma Jeane Baker, age fifteen, with her classmates: ninth grade, Emerson Junior High School, Los Angeles, June 1941. (From the collection of Gladys Phillips Wilson)

Norma Jeane Baker’s wedding to James Dougherty, Los Angeles (June 1942). (Photo by Axel Fogg)

First appearance as a model, age nineteen (1945). (Photo by David Conover; copyright by T. R. Fogli)

Posing for a magazine ad (1946). (Photo by André de Dienes)

Posing for artist and photographer Earl Moran (1946). (From the collection of Mickey Song)

With agent Johnny Hyde, Palm Springs (1949). (From the collection of Mickey Song)

With drama coach Natasha Lytess (1949).

As “Miss Cheesecake of 1951,” with Edward G. Robinson. (From the collection of Mickey Song)

Marilyn’s first leading role, as the psychotic baby-sitter in
Don’t Bother to Knock
(1952).

Recovering from her appendectomy (1952).

Preparing for the interior closeups in
River of No Return
(1952).

As the nearsighted Pola in
How To Marry a Millionaire
, with David Wayne (1953).