![]() ![]() Gladys died in 1984, outliving Marilyn by twenty-two years. Descargar esta imagen: Glendale, California, EE.UU. Marilyn not only paid for Gladys’ care while she was alive but even after by including her in her will. In 1953, Gladys entered Rockhaven Psychiatric, where she remained until Berniece moved her to Florida a few years after Marilyn’s death. Both Grace and Berniece felt she needed to be re-institutionalized Marilyn said she would handle it. Not long after did her mental health take a turn for the worse. Monroe would pass away having never met her biological father. Her father, Charles Stanley Gifford, deserted Gladys and wanted nothing to do with Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe was born on 1st June 1926 to Gladys Pearl Baker. ![]() In the coming years, she held a job and even married Colonel John Eley. Marilyn was not an orphan, but she grew up in foster homes and orphanages. She would then begin a cycle of being in and out of hospitals.ĭuring the Spring of 1946, Gladys moved into a little apartment Marilyn was living in owned by Ana Lower for a few months. Unfortunately, after suffering a breakdown, Gladys was institutionalized. The two hoped all would be well in a house with a baby grand piano. Gladys was an infrequent visitor until 1937 when, after Norma‘s dog, Tippy, passed away, she took her to live with her. Gladys wanted to make a home for the two of them. Gladys made regular $5-a-week payments for Norma’s bed and board. Two weeks after her baby girl was born, she brought her to live foster parents Ida and Albert “Wayne” Bolender. In late 1925, she learned she was pregnant and gave birth to her third child, Norma Jeane Mortenson. They split after just four months, Gladys moved in with her good friend, Grace McKee (later Goddard). ![]() She moved back to Los Angeles, where she got a job as a film cutter for Consolidated Film Industries, and in 1924, she married Martin Edward “Ed” Mortensen. Heartbroken, she followed them and found work as a nanny but later lost her job. In 1921, she filed for divorce on the grounds of “extreme cruelty by abusing and calling her vile names and using profane language at and in her presence, by striking and kicking.” During what was supposed to be a weekend trip to see his children, Jap, took the children to live with him in Kentucky. In her mid-teens, she married Jasper “Jap” Baker and mothered two children with him, Robert Kermitt “Jackie” and Berniece. Like Marilyn, Gladys had a chaotic upbringing. But that lie came back to bite the star in 1952 when a gossip columnist received a tip that Marilyn Monroe’s mother was still alive and working at a nursing home in Eagle Rock, a town outside of Los Angeles. Happy Heavenly birthday to Marilyn Monroe’s mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker Eley, born on this day, May 27th, 1900, in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Facebook Gladys Pearl Baker was admitted to Rockhaven Sanitarium in 1953, shortly after the expos on her was published. ![]()
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