Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
Go behind the sign to Catalina Island where Norma Jeane gave birth to Marilyn Monroe. In 1942, the future Marilyn Monroe spent a year and a half on the island as a teenage housewife. Why do historians leave off this life changing year of Monroeβs life?
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Have you visited the Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park & Mortuary where Natalie Wood is buried? Dead in Hollywood: Here Lies Natalie Wood. (Issue 18) tells the story of the final resting place of Wood with a bunch of never-before-seen photos of Woodβs gravesite.
Check out this review of Dead in Hollywood fanzine from last yearβs O.C. Zine Fest. I donβt know why Iβm just now seeing this! Thank you to Andres Salazar for the shout out!
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Before she was Marilyn Monroe, she was Norma Jeane Daughtry. At 16, Norma Jeane has two options: Ship off to yet another orphanage, or marry the boy-next-door and set sail for Catalina - an island off the coast of Southern California. Norma Jeane is no dumb blonde - she isnβt even a blonde. According to Norma Jeane's soon-to-be-husband, James Daughtry, the island paradise is where Marilyn Monroe is born. In an interview, Dougherty says: βI would marvel at how sheβd βturn onβ when she was walking and knew men were looking at her. Sheβd do βthe walkβ seen later in millions of her films, but back then, she was just learning to do it, and she was very, very good at it!β
There's a heatwave in LA right now and I am in desperate need of that Catalina breeze.
...pretend you're Marilyn Monroe.
"I didn't feel like a married woman. The most important thing my marriage did for me was to end forever my status as orphan," Marilyn says in her autobiography, "My Story.β "Jim was a nice husband. He never hurt me or upset me - except on one subject. He wanted a baby." The thought of having a baby makes the hairs on Norma Jeane's arm stand on end. Can you blame a child bride for not wanting to bring a kid into this world? Daughtry - who she calls either Jimmie or Daddy - never truly βgetsβ Norma Jeane. "She was just a housewife," remembers Jimmie/Daddy, "We used to go down to the beach and have luaus on Saturday nights." The couple's favorite song is Glen Miller's "Moonlight Serenade." They listen to it together on the beach in Avalon and dreamily hold each other in their arms. If you havenβt held someone in your arms on Catalina, what are you doing with your life?
Last summer, my sister found a box of home movies from our childhood. Here is a video of me in 1996 opening my Christmas present: A Marilyn Monroe calendar. And what about that "I Love Lucy" tucked tee?!?!
Two nights ago I watched βGentlemen Prefer Blondes" for the first time. I canβt believe I had never seen it. Then I wake up the following morning and itβs Marilyn Monroeβs 92nd birthday! #kismet
In 1942, a 16-year-old Norma Jeane Baker avoids being shunted to yet another foster home by marrying her 21-year-old neighbor, James Dougherty - a merchant marine soon to be stationed on Catalina Island. Dougherty moves his young bride to an apartment overlooking Avalon Harbor. The future Miss Marilyn Monroe spends the next year and a half living as a housewife, 22 miles off the coast of California. To be continued...
