Marilyn Monroe's Mexican roots
Marilyn was called Norma and her mother was Mexican. We tell you some details about Marilyn Monroe's Mexican roots.
She had a Mexican boyfriend, she divorced in Chihuahua, and her mother was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. We talk about Marilyn Monroe's Mexican roots.
Norma, a girl in constant abandonment
Marilyn Monroe's real name was Norma Jean Mortenson, she was born on June 1, 1926. She was the daughter of Gladys Baker Monroe and Edward Mortenson.
About his father
We know from Christina Pernas that Marilyn was never in contact with her father, since Gladys (her mother) claimed that he had died in a traffic accident and it was, perhaps, a premonition: she died in a car, but until 1980. It was known That it was him because among the documents he carried appeared the birth certificate of Norma Jean Mortenson.
He was Martin Edward Mortenson, the father of the actress who did not know of her existence, as Gladys left him without telling him that she was pregnant, until many years later when she wanted to claim alimony. So Marilyn did not have a strong or close father image.
About her mother: Gladys Baker Monroe
Gladys was born on May 27, 1902 in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. She was Mexican! She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. And the mother-daughter relationship was marked by tragedy.
Tim Ott reported that on June 13, 1926, 24-year-old Gladys Baker brought her two-week-old daughter Norma Jeane Mortenson to Ida and Wayne Bolender's foster home in Hawthorne, California.
And there began a long history of encounters and disagreements: Gladys struggled with her illness and with the illusion of taking care of her daughter. She had two more children: Robert and Berniece. The first one stayed with his father and died very young from kidney disease.
Berniece, on the other hand, managed to maintain a good epistolary relationship with Marilyn.
At some point in her ascending career, Norma decided to use a stage name: Marilyn Monroe and in the midst of this glamor she also decided to become an orphan in the public eye.
A journalist investigated and when fame was at its peak (around 1952) they discovered that she did have parents and that her mother had a mental illness. The true story came to light: the blonde actress was sexually abused in shelters, her mother tried to steal her from the home that gave her shelter from baby to 7 years ... and grim stories in which the constant was hysteria and the pain of separation: confusion, bewilderment.
The second link: she had a Mexican and communist boyfriend
In the book The Last Lover of Marilyn Monroe (2012, Xavier Navaza) one of the lesser-known chapters of Marilyn Monroe was revealed: she lived a fleeting romance with the young screenwriter and film director, José Bolaños Prado. He had ties to militants of the Mexican Communist Party, both Mexican and Spanish.
Marilyn and José met on February 22, 1962 in a store in Mexico City. During that trip the legendary conference took place in which they took the photo that revealed that the blonde was not wearing underwear.
In 1962 she was 35 years old; he, 26. In a passionate outburst they went together to Acapulco and from there to California. José was Marilyn's companion during the official Golden Globe awards ceremony. The love episode lasted 14 days.
Times were tough for communists and even more so for Americans sympathetic to that ideology. So it is said that the FBI began an investigation, the fruits of which some claim were a piece in the suicide that ended his days.
Chihuahua, party place for Monroe
It is known that Marilyn Monroe visited Ciudad Juárez, where she met Frank Sinatra for fun.
Perhaps these Mexican roots of Marilyn Monroe made her wear that mythical sweater in one of the most famous sessions of the actress and also pose, dressed in the china poblana costume.
