{"id":22779,"date":"2022-09-28T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1712750"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:37:31","slug":"what-happened-to-marilyn-monroes-dad-blonde-story-explained","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-happened-to-marilyn-monroes-dad-blonde-story-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Marilyn Monroe\u2019s dad? Blonde story explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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After much anticipation, Andrew Dominik\u2019s Marilyn Monroe film Blonde<\/a> finally arrived on Netflix on Wednesday 28th September 2022.<\/p>\n

Rather than being a traditional biopic, the film is an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 fictionalised novel of the same name \u2013 mixing fact with fiction to paint a portrait of a deeply troubled life that included a number of deeply harrowing episodes.<\/p>\n

One theme that the film keeps referring back to is Norma Jeane\u2019s relationship with her father \u2013 or rather her lack of a relationship with her father \u2013 and you might be wondering how far this aspect of the movie is based on reality.<\/p>\n

Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>

What happened to Marilyn Monroe\u2019s dad?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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In the film, Monroe is initially raised by her mother Gladys \u2013 who is depicted as a deeply unstable woman who at one point even tries to drown her daughter in the bathtub.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that this bathtub incident actually happened, however in real life, Monroe did have a troubled childhood. After Gladys was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she lived in a variety of orphanages and foster homes without any real parental figure.<\/p>\n

The film version of Monroe reacts to her lack of a father figure in a number of ways \u2013 from referring to several of her lovers as \u2018Daddy\u2019 to her repeated attempts to track her dad down.<\/p>\n

In one scene, she is told that there is a surprise waiting for her in her hotel room and she is convinced that she\u2019s about to be reunited with her long-lost father, while towards the end of the film she believes that she has finally received a letter from him \u2013 only to be disappointed once again.<\/p>\n