ETERNAL NORMA JEANE 💋

The woman behind Marilyn Monroe

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☆ Norma Jeane Baker by David Conover, 1945.

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Norma Jeane Baker, 1945

📷 Photo by Potter Hueth (1907 - 1955)

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Series "Country Girl" 💋Norma Jean newly as Marilyn Monroe as a pin-up - circa 1948 📷 Photographs by Earl Moran. 💋These photos of Marilyn inspired Earl to illustrate him for the 1953 Pin-up calendar.

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In January 1944, Norma Jeane and her husband Jim Dougherty (Took the photos) visited William Wrigley's Bird Park on Santa Catalina Island.

Photograph noted by marilyn's hand: "This picture was taken at wrigley birk park. the bird on my arm is a hornbill (it is suppose to be the only one in existance that anyone has ever been photographed with."

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MarilynMonroe photographed by Bill Burnside in 1947:

Bill Burnside photographed Marilyn Monroe between 1946 and 1948; but we know only the sitting at a beach in Malibu.  He is 43 years old when he meets the young Marilyn in 1946 while she is posing at the Bernard of Hollywood Studios. He would have photographed her for the first time in February 1946. They shared a certain interest in romantic poetry and the photographer claimed to have had an affair with her. He helped Marilyn to find work after the Fox did not renew his contract in 1947. They never saw each other after that.

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Norma Jeane Dougherty at the Radio Plane Munitions Factory, where she works inspecting parachutes:

Photograph Conover asks her if she has anything else to wear; Norma Jeane returns to her locker room and appears wearing her red sweater.

➡ Norma Jean in November 1944. 📷Photographs by David Conover.

It was certainly in November 1944 that photographer David Conover took these first photographs of Norma Jeane at the Radioplane factory: indeed, she was in Chicago at Grace McKee Goddard's at the end of October, posting postcards (Chicago postmark) on October 28, 1944 written to her half-sister Berniece Miracle and her friends from Los Angeles Cathy Staub and Jeanette Cox; then she returned to Los Angeles and resumed her work at the factory. It is in a letter dated June 04, 1945 written to Grace that she details her sessions with Conover, specifying "The day I went back to work, after my trip back with you, they had some army photographers there at work and they were taking moving pictures for army training (…) They all asked where I had been hiding. I told them I had been east on leave of absence with my folks. "

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Portraits of Norma Jeane - circa 1941

▪ In a letter, Eleanor 'Bebe' Goddard (Grace McKee Goddard 's step-daughter who lived with her for a short while in the late 1930s) she says: "...Norma Jeane was not happy with the way the photograph came out and (she) took a pencil and added hair and changed her lips."

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☆ Norma Jeane on a beach north of Malibu, California, in 1945 photographed by André De Dienes.