My journey ends here...
1945
Jim got back on duty.
Norma Jeane was still living with Ethel Dougherty (
) but she did'nt work anymore at the Radio Plane.Saturday, February 10, Ana Lower purchased the white piano Norma Jeane had at the Arbol Drive's house
while she lived with her mother Gladys (
).Monday, June 4 she wrote to her half-sister Berniece Miracle (
,
) and to Grace Goddard (
,
), where she explained that she was, from now on, a model, with Jim's agreement.David Conover offered her a photo session for Yank magazine and paid her $5/hour.
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Through him, she was connected to other photographers like William Carroll (
,
,
,
,
) and Potter Hueth (
,
,
,
).Hueth showed the pictures to Emmeline Snively (
), head of the Blue Book Modeling Agency (
). She wanted to meet Norma Jeane. During Summer, the Goddards went back and settled in California.
Norma Jeane got back to live with Ana Lower (
).Thursday, August 2, Norma Jeane signed a contract with the Blue Book Agency (
). She paid $25 for having her picture in the agency's brochure (
,
).She took lessons about make-up and beauty care (with Mrs Maria Smith), fashion and clothes (with Mrs Gavin Beardsley) and bearing (with Mrs Snively). The costs of the courses ($100) were subtracted from the first salary.
Beginning of September, the Blue Book found her a 10 days work at the California Industrial Exhibition, which
took place since September 2, at the Pan Pacific Auditorium (7600 Beverly Boulevard) (
,
).She worked as a hostess for the Holga Steel Company (
,
,
), and was paid $10 a day.She posed for a advert for Douglas Airline company's DC-6 (the advert would be released in 1946).
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Photographer Andre De Dienes (
) ws looking for a model. The Blue Book Agency suggested him several girls, including Norma Jeane. In November she posed for him for the first time, on the 101 Highway, north of Hollywood
(
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).
At the end of the year, Jim came back on leave for several weeks (
).He didn't appreciate a lot his wife's activity.
She agreed a $200 contract for a trip up to the state of Washington with photographer Andre De Dienes.
First then went to Zuma Beach, à Malibu (
,
,
,
,
),then to San Juan Capistrano (
,
,
,
,
,
),Mount Hood, Ontario (
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), and the Death Valley (
,
,
,
).In Oregon they visited Gladys who lived with her aunt Dora Graham (
)(sister of her mother Della Monroe) since the summer. She had been evaluated as harmless and not being a danger for anyone, so she had left the Agnew State Asylum where she was living since 1935.
Back to Los Angeles, Jim gave her an ultimatum : to choose between her housewife life or modelling.
Norma Jeane had already chosen.
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