Hollywood’s Walk of Fame

She was born in 1926 to Gladys Baker, an unmarried movie technician. Due to her mother’s mental instability she was raised in foster homes amongst neglect and abuse. At 16, she married a defense worker named James E. Dougherty. During World War II she became a pin-up model and was eventually signed to a modeling agency. In 1946 she divorced Dougherty, bleached her hair, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox and became Marilyn Monroe. A year later in 1953 Marilyn received her star along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame and was immortalized by her handprints in the famous forecourt of Grumman’s Chinese Theatre. Two years later she legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe and then married Arthur Miller. more Hundreds of Marilyn Monroe Quotes