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Feb 24, 2024 · James Dougherty married Norma Jeane Baker, who later became Marilyn Monroe, when she was 16 and he was 20. They divorced in 1946 after he refused to end her career as a model and actress. He later served as a Los Angeles police officer and helped invent the SWAT team.
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James Edward Dougherty (April 12, 1921 – August 15, 2005) was an American police officer, the first trainer of Special Weapons and Tactics. He is best known as the first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe .
James Dougherty, a retired Los Angeles police detective who earned a niche in Hollywood history when he married a pretty teenager named Norma Jean Baker in the early 1940s, years before she...
Oct 2, 2022 · James Dougherty, formerly an American police officer, is most famously known as the first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe. James married Marilyn Monroe, or Norma Jean as she was known then, when she was just 16 years old - long before she became a Hollywood starlet.
May 17, 2023 · James Dougherty was a young football player who married Norma Jeane Mortenson, later known as Marilyn Monroe, in 1942. They divorced in 1946 after Monroe's career took off, and Dougherty went on to have a successful law enforcement career and write books about his former wife.
Jul 13, 2023 · James Dougherty married Norma Jeane Mortenson, who later became Marilyn Monroe, in 1942 when she was 16. He served in the Merchant Navy and the LAPD, and helped create the SWAT team.
Aug 21, 2005 · Marilyn Monroe's first husband, James Dougherty, a major influence on her career, has died at 84. Schani Krug, producer of the documentary Marilyn's Man, says Dougherty helped teach the teenage...
