The Dreadnought

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The fuzzy end of the lollipop

What 'Blonde' gets wrong about Marilyn Monroe

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Sophie Bateman
Oct 11, 2022
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FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, Norma Jeane Mortenson had an instinctive sense of who she had to know and what she needed to do.

Sixteen years old and faced with being sent back to a hated orphanage, she did the only practical thing a girl in her position could do and got married. The union with a neighbour’s son liberated her from being a ward of state, freed …

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