Who Was Marilyn Monroe's Father? Here's All We Know About Charles Stanley Gifford

Charles Stanley Gifford, Marilyn Monroe's father, has emerged as a pivotal figure in the wake of the release of the recent movie Blonde, and fans are eager to discover more about him.

Blonde, a Netflix original series, debuted on Friday, September 23, 2022, and since then, people all across the world have learned more about the terrible life of Marilyn Monroe, one of the most well-known actors in history. Out of the two-and-a-half-hour film, forty-seven minutes are devoted to Monroe's life ">narrative and considers her estrangement from her father, Charles Stanely Gifford.

Who was Marilyn Monroe Father?

Unknown until very recently, Charles Stanley Gifford, a coworker of Gladys Pearl Baker with whom she had a brief affair, was identified as Marilyn Monroe's biological father through DNA testing. The results of the DNA tests were revealed in the French documentary Marilyn: Her Final Secret, also known as MARILYN, LA DERNIERE VERITE, which aired on Toute l'Histoire in France in June 2022.

Francine Gifford, Charles Stanley Gifford's granddaughter, and Lisa, his great-granddaughter, provided saliva and cheek swabs for the DNA analysis, along with a piece of Marilyn Monroe's hair. Finally, it was determined that Charles Stanley Gifford, who had long been assumed to be Marilyn Monroe's father, was in fact her biological father and a biological match.

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Charles Stanley Gifford passed away in 1965 at the age of 66. He was born in 1898. He met Monroe's mother, Gladys, while working as a motion picture salesperson at Consolidated Films. In his later years, he is said to have owned a few cottage apartments. It is generally stated that in his later years, in the 1960s, he took control of Red Rock Dairy, a business that supplied baked goods and ice cream.

According to rumours, when Monroe was in the neighbourhood, she would instruct her driver to take her limousine through the Red Rock drive-through in order to force the father who abandoned her before she was even born to fill her order.

In the 1996 documentary Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess, the actor' ex-husband asserted that Charles was uninterested in getting to know her despite her attempts to contact him before she became an actor.