Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time

Marilyn Monroe with Hal Schaefer, about 1953.

Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, in Hollywood in 1954. Monroe studied Fitzgerald's style, and the two became friends.


“I have this thing about saxophone players,” she said in her famously girlish and breathy style. “Especially tenor sax.” She added: “All they have to do is play eight bars of ‘Come To Me, My Melancholy Baby,’ and my spine turns to custard. I get goose-pimply all over, and I come to ’em.”

She's such a HUGE influence

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