o the Los Angeles Orphans Home for several years.
             Grace finally brought Norma Jeane home but Goddard tried to molest her so she went to live with Gladys' stepmother, Olive Brunings. Just after her 12th birthday she was assaulted by one of Olive's sons and went to live with Grace McKee's aunt, Ana Lower. Ana soon developed health problems and Norma Jeane went back to the Goddard's where she met a neighbor's son, Jim Dougherty.
             After her 16th birthday, Norma Jeane married him. Dougherty joined the Merchant Marines in 1943,and in 1944 he was sent overseas and she went to live with her mother-in-law. Norma Jeane got a job at an airplane factory. The Army sent a photographer (David Connover) to take pictures of women helping with the war effort where he took photographs of Norma Jeane. The photographer was impressed by Norma Jeane and suggested she apply for a modeling job at the Blue Book model agency.
             By 1945, Norma Jeane Dougherty's glowing beauty had made her immensely popular, and she graced the covers of 33 major magazines. Three years after her marriage to Jim began; Norma Jeane and Grace arranged a divorce from Jim Dougherty. In July 1946 Norma Jeane did a screen test at Twentieth-Century Fox and got a contract for $125 a week, signing the name Marilyn Monroe. The last name was her
             grandmother's and the first name were copied from the actress Marilyn Miller. In the fall of 1946 her divorce w
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