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Marilyn Monroe

1930 US Census

Marilyn Monroe, actress
Bus Stop (1956), Some Like It Hot (1959)

459 Rhode Island Ave., Hawthorne, CA. Owned home. Value $5000. Radio: Yes.
Albert W. Bolander, head, 46 (34), OH, OH, OH, letter carrier, U. S., employed.
Edna E. Bolander, wife, 42 (30), NY, CAN, ENG, not employed.
Lester Bolander, son, 3 9, 12, CA.
Gladys Baker, boarder, 27, divorced, ENG, ENG, ENG developer, motion pictures, employed. Language before immigrating to U. S.? English. Immigrated 1910?
NORMA JEAN BAKER, boarder, 63, widow, IN, OH, IN, not employed.

Marilyn Monroe, nicknamed Norma Jean Baker was born June 1, 1926. She was three years old at the time of the 1930 Census. Biographies of Miss Monroe report she was living with foster parents, the Bolanders, in 1930 and did not regularly see her birth mother, Gladys Baker. It's suspected that she was recorded on the 1930 Census incorrectly as a 63 year old!