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On June 19, 1942 – after dating only a few months and just 18 days after Norma Jean’s 16th birthday – they were married.
A wedding photo of the beaming couple taken in front of a fireplace shows Dougherty in a white tuxedo and his fresh-faced, brunette bride in a white wedding gown and veil and holding a large bouquet of flowers.
After a honeymoon to a lake in Ventura County, the newlyweds moved into a studio apartment with a pull-down Murphy bed in Sherman Oaks.
In 1944, Dougherty joined the merchant marine and was initially assigned to teach sea safety on Catalina Island, where the young couple moved into an apartment.
“She was just a housewife,” Dougherty told UPI. “We would go down to the beach on weekends, and have luaus on Saturday night. She loved it over there. It was like being on a honeymoon for a year.”
“We loved each other madly,” he said. “I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.”
After Dougherty received an overseas assignment, his wife moved back to Van Nuys. She landed a job at Radioplane Co., where she initially packed and inspected the parachutes that attached to miniature, remote-controlled target planes.
After a photographer assigned to take pictures of women working as part of the war effort used her as a subject, the young Mrs. Dougherty became a sought-after model in the Los Angeles area.
Hollywood soon beckoned. And, when her marriage to her absent husband crumbled as her career ambitions rose, she sought a quickie divorce in Las Vegas; the marriage was officially over in September 1946.“I was on a ship in the Yangtze River getting ready to go into Shanghai when I was served with divorce papers,” Dougherty told Associated Press in 2002. “She wanted to sign a contract with [20th Century] Fox and it said she couldn’t be married.”
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes premiered on July 15, 1953. The film earned $ 5.3 million dollars at the box office (adjusted for inflation, that is equivalent to $48.6 million in 2017) and was the ninth highest-grossing film of 1953, whereas Marilyn Monroe’s next feature How to Marry a Millionaire was the fourth highest that same year.
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