Timeline of main events

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1920s
1926

June 1: Norma Jeane Mortenson is born September: baptized as Norma Jean Baker

1927

1928

1929

1930s
1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940s
1940

1941

1942

Jun 19: marries James Dougherty

1943

1944

1945

June 26: photographed at Radioplane Corporation by David Conover

August 2: signs up with the Blue Book Modeling Agency

1946

April 26: first national magazine cover in Family Circle

?: dyes her hair blonde

?: does her first pin-up modeling, for photographer and renown pin-up artist Earl Moran

?: changes her screen name to Marilyn Monroe

?: lands her first studio contract with 20th Century-Fox

1947

1948

?: Ladies of the Chorus for Columbia Pictures

1949

February: films Love Happy with the Marx Brothers

May 27: poses nude for Tom Kelley

?: departs by train to the East Coast on a tour to promote Love Happy

?: lands a part in The Asphalt Jungle

1950s
1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960s
1961

1962