after you get what you want, you don t want it. that s a perfect number, because that s really her story, too. because after you get what you want you don t want what you she had the money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. i know you but there was something missing. she doesn t want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. i could have sworn you re a dramatic actress. that s impossible. what i d like to do is to be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there s no business like show business opens to great fanfare, but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. marilyn monroe didn t show up for her own movie premiere. her mind and her life were somewhere else. she was incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black, bobbed wig sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. she didn t tell anybody, and nobody knew. marilyn walked out as a declaration
ella fitzgerald was wanting to play the macombo club. but the owner of the macombo didn t want ella. it was mostly a whites-only club, but when they did have black performers, they had to be spectacularly beautiful. and the owner of the macombo didn t really care about ella s talent if she wasn t hot and svelte. marilyn read about this in the paper and got really mad. so she called the manager and said hi, this is marilyn monroe, and if you rebook ella fitzgerald,ly come every night to hear her sing. both shows. this was the beginning of the civil rights movement, with the can ku klux klan was out, what is marilyn monroe going to get out of that, with marilyn being that big of a friend with ella