My journey ends here...
1936
Norma
Jeane spent this new year at the Los Angeles orphanage (
,
,
;
), and kept attending the Vine Street School (4th and 5th grade).
It was during her stay that she learn how to swim; she also belonged to the soft-ball team.
Grace continued to visit her regularly,
FEBRUARY
On Wednesday, February 26 Grace applied fro Norma Jeane's guardianship
On Friday, March 27 Grace became Norma Jeane's legal guardian (
).
In
1935 and 1936, 2 movies where Jean
Harlow played (
,
) released in Hollywood :
"China Seas" and "Libeled Lady". Grace reaffirmed her conviction :
Norma Jeane would follow the great movie star trail. Jean Harlow
was a vision built for black and white movies : platinum hair, stunning
wardrobe, immaculate settings, white residences.
After having seen several movies of Jean Harlow, those years, Grace bleached her hair and went through a period where she only wore white color, only purchase white clothes to Norma Jeane and even planned to make the girl a platinum blonde. She had the wisdom to give this project up : the orphanage wouldn't have been crazy about such a changing to a 10 years old child.
JUNE
The
blonde star Jean Harlow announced that, after having played for 10
years under her mother's maiden name, she took it offically on her own.
From then on she was Jean Harlow and burried Harlean Carpenter McGrew
Bern Rosson (she had been married 3 times).
At the same time, it had been learned that she was one of the celebrities who campaigned for President Franklin Roosevelt re-election, a political commitment which much impressed Grace.
OCTOBER
Grace took her out of the orphanage. She lived with the Goddards until November 1937. Grace was paid $20 a month as a guardian.
END OF THE YEAR
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