Throughout her life, Marilyn Monroe denied that Mortensen was her father.
She said that when she was a child, she had been shown a photograph of a man that Gladys Baker identified as her father.
She remembered that he had a thin moustache and somewhat resembled Clark Gable, and that she had amused herself by pretending that Gable was her father, but never determined her father's true identity.
Mentally unstable and financially unable to care for Norma Jeane, Gladys placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven.
In her autobiography My Story (co-authored with screenwriter and novelist Ben Hecht,)Monroe stated she believed that the Bolenders were her parents until Ida corrected her.
After that Norma Jeane referred to them as Aunt & Uncle.
She said that when she was a child, she had been shown a photograph of a man that Gladys Baker identified as her father.
She remembered that he had a thin moustache and somewhat resembled Clark Gable, and that she had amused herself by pretending that Gable was her father, but never determined her father's true identity.
Mentally unstable and financially unable to care for Norma Jeane, Gladys placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven.
In her autobiography My Story (co-authored with screenwriter and novelist Ben Hecht,)Monroe stated she believed that the Bolenders were her parents until Ida corrected her.
After that Norma Jeane referred to them as Aunt & Uncle.
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