Gladys Pearl Baker: The Troubled Mother of Marilyn Monroe

Everyone knows the Marilyn Monroe origin story by now. The orphan who bounced between foster homes, invented herself out of nothing and became the most famous woman on the planet. Except it wasn't quite true. Marilyn wasn't an orphan. Her mother was alive the entire time, and for most of Marilyn's life, she was locked away in one institution after another, fighting a disease nobody around her fully understood. That woman was Gladys Pearl Baker, and her story is a lot stranger and sadder than...