AT A GLANCE
Born in Los Angeles on 1 June 1926 as Norma Jeane Mortenson, the girl who would become one of the brightest stars of the silver screen had a troubled childhood. With her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals, Norma drifted between foster homes, eventually ending up in an orphanage. Yet even then, she was enthralled by the movies
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