Nearly everybody I met suffered from malnutrition or suicidal impulses." Thinking of the English actors who'd lived in her mother's house, she contrasted their unreal hopes with the grim reality of their lives: "Among the phonies and failures were also a set of has-beens. These were mostly actors and actresses who had been dropped by the movies – nobody knew why, least of all themselves." By the end of the war Norma Jeane was ready to pursue the same difficult goal, and aspired to be a model, singer, dancer and actress. She had learned to live without her husband, had no desire to go back to housework and was sick of the factory. Photogenic, with blue eyes and fine skin, she was five feet five inches tall, weighed 117 pounds, and had a voluptuous 36-24-34 figure. She'd earned twenty dollars a week at the plane factory; her first job as a model paid ten dollars a day. In 1945 David Conover introduced her to Emmeline Snively, owner of the Blue Book Modeling Agency. A formal woman in her late forties, she ran a successful business that supplied young models for scores of popular photo magazines.
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