Before she was famous, Marilyn Monroe was known as Norma Jeane Baker. And in 1946, she and her lover at the time, the photographer André de Dienes, traveled to Malibu, where they took photos of the then barely 20-year-old girl, who was still living in complete anonymity and far from the status of femme fatale or. movie divas. See rare photos of Marilyn Monroe when she was just 20 years old.