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Feb 24, 2024 · Before Marilyn Monroe famously wed baseball player Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, she married James Dougherty when she was just 16 years old and still known as Norma Jeane Baker. James Dougherty had a full life.
James Edward Dougherty (April 12, 1921 – August 15, 2005) was an American police officer, the first trainer of Special Weapons and Tactics. He is best known as the first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe. Biography. James Edward Dougherty was born on April 12, 1921, in Torrance, California.
Aug 18, 2005 · James Dougherty, a retired Los Angeles police detective who earned a niche in Hollywood history when he married a pretty teenager named Norma Jean Baker in the early 1940s, years before she...
James Dougherty, who had served in the Navy and was an officer for the Los Angeles Police Force, is most famous as the first husband of Marilyn Monroe.
May 17, 2023 · But before DiMaggio and Miller, there was another, first husband — James Dougherty — who knew Monroe by her birth name, Norma Jeane Mortenson. They got married young, were extremely happy, and ended their relationship just as Monroe's career took off.
Aug 21, 2005 · Marilyn Monroe's first husband, James Dougherty, a major influence on her career, has died at 84. Schani Krug, producer of the documentary Marilyn's Man, says Dougherty helped teach the teenage...
Oct 2, 2022 · 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.
