Photographer Richard C. Miller met Norma Jeane Dougherty - Marilyn Monroe - in the spring of 1946, when she was just 19 years old. A few years earlier, while attending Van Nuys High School, Norma Jeane had married a neighbor's son, James Dougherty, to avoid being sent back to an orphanage because her current guardians were leaving the state. Among the many images that Miller made of her, this photograph depicts Norma Jeane wearing the wedding dress from her marriage to Dougherty
A vintage photo of a woman in a white wedding dress with a veil, holding a book with a cross on it, against a blue background with sparkling lights.
A vintage photo of a woman in a white wedding dress with a veil, holding a book with a cross on it, against a blue background with sparkling lights.