To Norma Jeane, With Love, Jimmie
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Endearing book by Marilyn Monroe's first husband Jim Dougherty of their early life together with photographs. Fact not research or fiction his words are true because he was there!!!!
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Norma Jeane and ‘Jimmie’: A love story
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Muscular and handsome with a rough-and-ready attitude, he tried to look nonchalant as two year-old girls wiggled and giggled their way into his car. Wards of the state of California and the charges of the Goddards, the girls were well-known to the Doughertys. The family, an all-American clan of Irish lineage, had toughed it out through the Depression by making their own bullets and shooting game in the California hills.
Times were lean and bullets were precious. The Doughertys brought their prey down on the first shot.
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She was just a kid. But unbeknownst to the young man, a plan was being hatched between Mrs. Her biological father was, well, one of several possibilities. In and out of mental hospitals, Gladys Mortenson lost Norma Jeane to the California foster care system. Norma Jeane became a ward of the state, and Doc and Grace Goddard were appointed her guardians. When the Goddards learned they were being transferred to West Virginia, a question arose: The web began to weave in the form of a Christmas dance.
The Goddards dispensed with subtleties: He considered himself a man and now was being asked — told, actually — to take this curly-haired cutie to a grown-up dance.
In June of they were married and the Goddards were en route to West Virginia. Life took on a nice stride for the newlyweds, according to Dougherty. Their home life waxed poetic: Dougherty would buy little things in department stores to decorate their apartment.
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But World War II was looming closer, and Dougherty was growing increasingly uncomfortable as he watched his buddies, fellow workers and relatives answer the patriotic call. He also knew his draft number was coming up, so he enlisted in the U. But the real combat was at home.
Norma Jeane became so hysterical at the prospect of Dougherty pulling anchor that he went down to the Navy the next day to tear up his form. He finally resolved to join the Merchant Marine. He could contribute to his country and, at the same time, test common wisdom that enlistees got more furloughs. He broke the news to his wife, and the night he parted was the worst one of his life. Dougherty braced himself as his ship pulled away, torn apart by the sight of his weeping wife on the wharf.
Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty and her beloved collie, Mugzy, moved in with her in-laws.
To Norma Jeane, With Love, Jimmie
The young bride settled into life with Mugzy and her mother-in-law, but she soon became bored and asked the elder Mrs. Dougherty to help her get a job. Before long, Norma Jeane was working for a firm called Radio Plane that sent up remote controlled airplanes for target practice.
She was assigned the DOPE room where she applied stiffening agents to planes.
The future actor Robert Mitchum was also working there. The job was noble but boring, until a war photographer sent a stringer to the plant to document the war effort.
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The camera clicked and the rest is history. It was a crushing blow to the young Merchant Marine stationed in the Pacific Theatre. But, 54 years later, he still attributed the end of their marriage to separation, not stardust.