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Berniece Inez Gladys Miracle (née Baker; July 30, 1919 – May 25, 2014) was an American writer, known for her memoir My Sister Marilyn (1994) about her half-sister, actress Marilyn Monroe. Biography
Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on May 27, 1902, [b] in Porfirio Díaz (now named Piedras Negras, Coahuila) in Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.Her mother, Della Mae Monroe (née Hogan), was born in Missouri [2] [3] and she was from Bentonville, Arkansas, and her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, was a house painter from Indianapolis.
Around this time, Dougherty met 15-year-old Norma Jeane Baker (later known as Marilyn Monroe) at Van Nuys High School. [7] [8] Monroe was living with her foster parents, Dougherty's neighbors named Grace and Doc Goddard, as her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, had been committed to a sanatorium for paranoid schizophrenia in 1934. [9]
The funeral service was arranged by DiMaggio, Monroe's half-sister Berniece Baker Miracle, and Monroe's business manager Inez Melson. [57] He barred Hollywood's elite and members of the Kennedy family from attending the funeral, including President John F. Kennedy. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week for 20 ...
Celebrity Relatives Who s Appeared on American Idol Jordin Sparks Baylee Littrell More 555 Doobie Brothers guitarist and vocalist Tom Johnston 's daughter was an early standout on American Idol 's ...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants had a lasting impact on its young cast as well. Ferrera, Lively, Bledel and Tamblyn remain close friends, and often share their reunions and support for one ...
An adopted man spent all 75 years of his life thinking he was an only child, only to discover he had several biological siblings waiting to welcome him to the family.
Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ / MARR-ə-lin mən-ROH; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she 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.