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3 days ago · Marilyn Monroe used her star power to help break down racial barriers in Hollywood. Discover how her friendship with Ella Fitzgerald led to a groundbreaking ...
5 days ago · Marilyn Monroe — ‘A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.’.
5 days ago · We’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t know that Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson (later baptized Norma Jean Baker), or about the famous men she married—James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, and playwright Arthur Miller.
5 days ago · The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. AFineLyne. 2. Ella Fitzgerald was the First Woman to Win Amateur Night. Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at The Apollo...
14 hours ago · The Brant Inn’s stage saw the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Lawrence Welk, Johnny Mathis, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, The Ink Spots, and Liberace, just to name a few. The crowds they drew were enormous—so much so that when Benny Goodman’s band played, the police had to step in to manage the traffic jams.
5 days ago · In the early hours of Aug. 5, 1962, a woman was found dead at a house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. The name she was identified by was Marilyn Monroe. She died late on Aug. 4.
5 days ago · Nicknamed the African-American Gold Coast, Addisleigh Park in Queens was home to figures like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jackie Robinson.
