Rare Facts You Never Knew About Marilyn Monroe

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In the spring of 1944, Norma's husband shipped out to the Pacific where he would serve for the next two years. In the meantime, Norma moved in with her parents-in-law and took on her first job working in a factory for the Radioplane Company. That same year she met David Conover, a photographer who worked for the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit.

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