Working as a telephone operator she was gradually advanced to a supervisor.
You might still see her signature on some old paper money! After her marriage to Harry Howard Hicks on July 31, 1924, she went to North Carolina, his native state.
Arriving in Hollywood in the early 1950s as Norma Jeane Baker, selling 'Marilyn' became her life work and she quickly succeeded in becoming a page one headliner, a columnist's dream and a photographer's best friend.