Hanching Chung
Nikki Morris
In 1955 Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to perform in Hollywood's most popular nightclub, The Mocambo, because of her race & body size. Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner and explained that if he booked Ella, she would be there every night, which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every single night as promised. Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland even showed up on opening night
Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman, a little ahead of her time, and she didn’t even know it.” - Women in History
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Marilyn Monroe, with her charming candor, is said to have once said to Einstein, “We could have a baby together. He would come out beautiful like me and smart like you". To which, the father of relativity, would have replied: "Well, I think he would come out faster with my beauty and your intelligence." Then it was not yet known (the tests were done later), that Marilyn Monroe's IQ was 165, five points above that of "the greatest genius of all time". Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Baker, 1926-1962) was a great reader. She had a library in her house with about a thousand books and spent many hours reading literary works, poetry, theater, philosophy. Her spirit, in addition to a great desire to live, had an immense curiosity and an unbridled hunger for knowledge. These are some of the wonderful quotes of this incredible woman: "One of the best things that happened to me is that I am a woman. All women should feel that way." "Dogs don't bite. People do." "I don't feel like spring. I feel like a hot red autumn." "Laugh when you're sad. Crying is too easy." "No one told me I was beautiful when I was a child. All children should be told they're beautiful, even if they're not." "It's better to be alone than miserable with someone." "Imperfection is beauty and madness is genius. It's better to be ridiculous than to be boring." "Disappointments make you open your eyes and close your heart." "I'm a little girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." "I've never left someone I believed in." "I have never cheated anyone. Sometimes I let men make their own mistakes." "If I had followed all the rules, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere." "It's easier to love a man than to live with him." "Don't hang your head, keep your forehead up and smile, because life is a beautiful thing and you have many reasons to smile."
When Diane Arbus died in 1971, she joined a pantheon of distraught, creative women, including Sylvia Plath, Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Frida Kahlo, who all died prematurely
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