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    James Dougherty

    American police officer and husband of Marilyn Monroe

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  2. children: Cheryl Ann Dougherty, Mary Irene Doughtery, Vivian Kathleen Dougherty. American Men Aries Men. Died on: August 15, 2005. place of death: San Rafael, California, United States. Notable Alumni: Van Nuys High School (1938) U.S. State: Texas. More Facts. Rise to Stardom.

    • James Dougherty and Norma Jeane Baker Meet
    • James Dougherty’s Marriage to A Future Icon
    • How Norma Jeane Baker Became Marilyn Monroe
    • James Dougherty After Marilyn Monroe

    Born on April 12, 1921, James Dougherty had a fairly normal childhood and young adulthood. He attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California, where he was a football captain and the class president. After graduation, he started working the night shift at Lockheed Aircraft as World War II intensified. Then, his life changed when a family f...

    At first, James and Norma Jeane Dougherty lived like any other newlywed couple. He joined the U.S. Merchant Marine; she worked as a housewife. Dougherty fell deeper in love with his “feisty” and “funny” wife, recalling that he felt like the “luckiest guy in the world.” They began their marriage living in a studio apartment in Sherman Oaks, but Doug...

    While working at the factory one day, the future superstar caught the eye of photographer David Conover, who was on assignment taking pictures of women involved in the war effort. “You’re a real morale booster,” Conover told Norma Jeane, as reported by Smithsonian Magazinein 2022. “I’m going to take your picture for the boys in the Army to keep the...

    Following his divorce, James Dougherty went on to marry twice more. Because his second wife was jealous of Monroe, Dougherty didn’t see any of her movies in theaters. He also burned all the letters she’d written to him. James Dougherty fully moved on from his first marriage. But it still stung when he got the news on Aug. 5, 1962, that Marilyn Monr...

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  3. Times Staff Writer. 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,...

  4. In 1947, Dougherty married Patricia Scoman, and they had three daughters. In 1949, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and eventually became a detective. He played a part in the creation of the Special Weapons and Tactics group, becoming the first officer to train it.

    • Jim Dougherty (1942 - 1946) LAPD policeman James Dougherty was Monroe’s first husband. On June 19, 1942, Monroe married Dougherty, then 21, when she was 16 years old.
    • Joe DiMaggio (1954 - 1955) In 1954, Monroe married her second husband and former New York Yankees baseball player, Joe DiMaggio, per PBS. By that time, DiMaggio had been retired for three years and Monroe was a famous actor, with “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “How to Marry a Millionaire” as credits.
    • Arthur Miller (1956 - 1961) Monroe’s longest marriage was to her third husband, “Crucible” playwright Arthur Miller. They met in 1951, according to “The Genius and the Goddess,” a book about their relationship.
  5. Sep 6, 2022 · Monroe was married to her next-door neighbor, Jim Dougherty from 1942 to 1946, baseball pro Joe DiMaggio from 1954 to 1955 and playwright Arthur Miller from 1956 to 1961. Monroe never had children ...

  6. Sep 30, 2022 · When Marilyn was just 16, she married her first husband, 21-year-old James Dougherty. The two would only remain married until 1946. ... and they never had any children. She died shortly after ...

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