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Miracle died in Asheville, North Carolina, on May 25, 2014, at the age of 94. [14] My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe was published on June 1, 1994 (on Monroe's birthday and 50 years after the half-sisters first met).
- Berniece Baker Miracle’s Early Life
- Berniece Baker Miracle Meets Marilyn Monroe
- Berniece Baker Miracle After Marilyn Monroe’s Death
Like her half-sister, Berniece Baker Miracle had a turbulent childhood. Born on July 30, 1919, she spent just a few scant years with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker. After her parents divorced in the 1920s, her father took Miracle and her brother from California to his native Kentucky. Gladys later claimed that her husband had been abusive and that ...
In the autumn of 1944, Norma Jeane — not yet called Marilyn Monroe — traveled to Detroit, where Berniece Baker Miracle lived with her husband, Paris. “Norma Jeane had written to tell me what kind of outfit she would be wearing and what color it would be,” Miracle wrote in My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe. Yet Miracle fretted over who w...
Following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Berniece Baker Miracle helped put her sister to rest. “I helped [Monroe’s ex-husband] Joe DiMaggio arrange her funeral,” Miracle explained. “I chose her casket and decided on the pale green dress she wore.” But Miracle doesn’t think that her sister killed herself. “It could have been an accident, because I had just...
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In her will, Monroe left several thousand dollars to her half-sister Berniece Baker Miracle and her secretary May Reis, a share for the education of her friend Norman Rosten's daughter, and established a $100,000 trust fund to cover the costs of the care of her birth mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and the widow of her acting teacher Michael Chekhov.
Dec 23, 2023 · Berniece Baker Miracle wrote a memoir about life with her sister Marilyn Monroe. By. Julie Tremaine. Published on December 23, 2023 12:00PM EST. Marilyn Monroe then known as Norma Jeane...
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May 25, 2014 · Berniece Inez Gladys Miracle (née Baker; July 30, 1919 – May 25, 2014) was an American writer, known for her memoir My Sister Marilyn (1994) about her half-sister, actress Marilyn Monroe.
Baker gave birth to a son Robert Kermit "Jackie" (1918–1933), followed by a daughter, Berniece Inez Gladys (1919–2014). Jackie fell out of their car, suffered injuries, and was lame for the rest of his life. [19]
Jan 14, 2022 · Although it was believed that Miracle was alive and well, news spread through the Marilyn fan community on January 14th 2022 that she had indeed passed away on May 25th 2014, aged 94. She now rests eternally beside her husband Paris in Pineville Cemetery Kentucky.
