Charles Stanley GIFFORD.
Date of birth : September 18, 1898, Newport, Rhode Island
Date of death : January 27, 1965, Riverside, California ,
Profession in 1925 or 1926 he worked at the Consolidated Film Industries,
as foreman in the day shift.
Gladys Baker worked under his command.
Addresses
* 1918 : 135 West 27th Street, Los Angeles
* 1920 :
7230 Lenhill Avenue, Los Angeles
7220 Cardiff Avenue, Los Angeles
* 1930 to 1942 : 3014 Chesapeake Avenue, Los Angeles
* 1950 : Red Rock Dairy, Hemet.Story
Born from Frederick Almy Gifford
(April 12, 1897, New Bedford,
Massachusetts-July 4, 1957,
Riverside, California) and Elizabeth Easton "Lizzie" Tennant (April 5, 1866, Newport, Rhode Island-April 27, 1904, Newport, Rhode
Island).
He had the reputation to be a skirt-chaser.
Registration card September 12, 1918
On July 26, 1919, he married Lillian Malinda Priester (June 5, 1898, Los Angeles -December
They had 2 children : Doris Elizabeth (September 22, 1920, Los Angeles-May 11, 1933, Los Angeles)
(;
) and Charles Stanley Junior (September 21, 1922, Los Angeles-April
She left him in October 1923 and in the divorce statment in May 1925, he admitted "to have boasted with no decency about his feminine conquests".
She obtained the divorce in the motive of "extreme cruelty" ,
,
,
Registration card February 14, 1918
In the total of his conquests was Gladys
Baker who lived in the same building like him; their affair ended when she announced him that she was pregnant.
There are no evidence about a relationship between this potential father and Norma Jeane, during her childhood.
But Gladys didn't ever claim, in private or publicly, that Gifford was the father of the child. She didn't ask him the least support, neither material nor emotional, for her as for the child.
When she was 18 and married to Jim Dougherty, a friend of the family gave to Norma Jeane Gifford's phone number; she called him but he hung up as soon as she introduced herself as Glady's s daughter.
Later Norma Jeane found his trace again at the farm of Red Rock Dairy, in Hemet, near Palm Springs (South East of Los Angeles) where he lived with his last wife.