Who was James Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe's first husband?
03.10.2022 - 12:25
/ msn.com
Blonde, the new Netflix film based on the 2000 novel Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates has topped the charts upon its release, with critics and viewers alike praising its powerful portrayal of the actress's troubled life. Netflix's Blonde launched on Friday, September 23 and has remained at the top of the Netflix film charts. The film stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe and reveals to viewers more about the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe.
The film explores Marilyn's relationship with her estranged father Charles Stanley Gifford, as well as her turbulent marriages. But one relationship that isn't explored in the film is her first marriage to police officer James Dougherty, leading those with an interest in Marilyn's backstory to question who Marilyn's first husband was and why their marriage failed. James Dougherty, formerly an American police officer, is most famously known as the first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe.
James married Marilyn Monroe, or Norma Jean as she was known then, when she was just 16 years old - long before she became a Hollywood starlet. “I never knew Marilyn Monroe, and I don’t claim to have any insights to her to this day,” he told United Press International in 1990, according to reporting from the LA Times. “I knew and loved Norma Jean.
”The pair met when James was 20 years old and working the night shift at Lockheed Aircraft. His family had lived next door to Grace and Doc Goddard, who were fostering Norma Jean at the time. You may also like. . . Ana de Armas on visits to Marilyn Monroe's grave, 'I couldn't let her go'“They wanted to move back to [West] Virginia, and they couldn’t take Norma Jean,” James said in the United Press International interview.
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