Marilyn’s Birth Name Was Norma Jeane
Marilyn Monroe, the actress, model and singer who rose to fame in the 1950s, was born in June of 1926. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California to Gladys Baker, who at the time was 24. And for the first many years of her life, Monroe didn’t know much about her extended family, or even if she had any other family at all.