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Gladys Pearl Monroe (May 27, 1902 – March 11, 1984), also known as Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker Mortensen Eley, was the mother of American actress Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson). Born in Mexico, Baker grew up in the Los Angeles metro area. Her father died in 1909 after suffering from mental illness and alcoholism.
Berniece Inez Gladys Baker was born on July 30, 1919 in Venice, California.Her parents, Gladys Pearl Monroe and Jasper Newton "Jap" Baker, were married in 1917, 10 days before Monroe's 15th birthday.
Gladys Pearl Baker, mother of actress Marilyn Monroe, lived at Rockhaven from 1952 to 1966. Baker was reported to have escaped from the sanitarium several times; a year after Monroe's death , she received press attention for having walked 15 miles to the Lakeview Terrace Baptist Church.
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Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe), was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico [7] to a poor Midwestern family who migrated to California at the turn of the century. [8] At age 15, Gladys had married John Newton Baker, an abusive man nine years her senior. They had two children together, Robert [9] and Berniece. [10]
In her will, Monroe left several thousand dollars to her half-sister Berniece Baker Miracle and her secretary May Reis, a share for the education of her friend Norman Rosten's daughter, and established a $100,000 trust fund to cover the costs of the care of her birth mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and the widow of her acting teacher Michael ...
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Death toll climbs to 24 and thousands of structures destroyed in California wildfires. Weather. AccuWeather. Intense Santa Ana winds to resume early this week around Los Angeles. Advertisement.