Before Marilyn

Miss Snively always referred to her former pupil as Norma Jean Dougherty and later Marilyn Monroe. However, records show that the official spelling of her name was actually Jeane with an ‘e’. In order to be factual, the authors have written her name in the official way.
On a similar note, because the agency boss often wrote her notes and letters with business partner Joyce Ryan, she sometimes refers to herself in the third person. Where she did this in the archive, we have – for the most part – kept it that way in the text of the book. The only thing we have changed is where Miss Snively occasionally gets a date incorrect in her notes. These have been corrected to correspond with historical accuracy.