- Her parents were Albert and Ida Bolenders
- She was born as Norma Jean Baker
- She was put into an orphanage as a toddler and got moved around form foster home to foster home
- When she was 16 her foster parents were going to move From California, so to avoid being out in another foster home she got married to a gentlemen named James Dougherty.
- When she was young she went to Ballona Elementry School
- She went to Van Nuys High School
- She went to the University of California and Actors Studio
- The first movie she ever starred in was "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim"
- She was involved in a scandal that said she might be sleeping with president JFK
- People also stated that she might have slept with the presidents brother
- She was 36 years old when she died
- She signed her first movie contract in 1946
- She worked for playboy for awhile
- Her last words were "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye o Jack and say goodbye to yourself, because our a nice guy"