>> ella fitzgerald, she had a voice like an angel, and marilyn played her records all the time. >> there's a lovely picture of them sitting together where they look both kind of rough. and you can tell that they're really tight friends. >> there's a famous story that ella fitzgerald was wanting to play the mocombo club. but the owner of the mocombo didn't want ella. it was mostly a whites-only club, but when it did have black performers, they had to be spectacularly beautiful. and the owner of the mocombo didn't really care about ella's immense talent if she wasn't, you know, hot and svelte. >> marilyn read this in the paper. she got very annoyed. so she called the manager and said, "hi, this is marilyn monroe. and if you rebook ella fitzgerald, i will come every night to hear her sing, both