Gladys Pearl Baker
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Gladys Pearl Monroe, also known as Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker Mortensen Eley, was the mother of American actress Marilyn Monroe. Born in Mexico, Baker grew up in the Los Angeles metro area. Her father
Gladys Pearl Monroe holding Norma Jeane
Charles Stanley Gifford, c. 1922
Marilyn Monroe's birth certificate
Norma Jeane as an infant in 1927
Berniece Baker Miracle
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Berniece Inez Gladys Miracle was an American writer, known for her memoir My Sister Marilyn about her half-sister, actress Marilyn Monroe.
Gladys Pearl Baker
…was married three times and divorced twice. She was married for the first time at age 14 to Jasper Newton Baker. They had two children, American author Berniece Baker Miracle and Robert Jasper "Kermit" Baker. At the end of the marriage, Jasper kidnapped their two children and returned to his native Kentucky without his wife's…
Miracle (left) with her half-sister Marilyn Monroe, c. 1944