Born 1926 as Norma Jeane Mortenson and raised in Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage before marrying James Dougherty in 1942 at age sixteen.
Monroe was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures.
Before famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, and became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution, here are beautiful portraits of Marilyn Monroe (then Norma Jeane Dougherty) by H. Maier Studios, Los Angeles, around 1943-44.
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