In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a potato sack.

So, she did!

72 years later, we’re still talking about Marilyn Monroe.

And who was that newspaper columnist?

For the record, in the 1950s, the hottest nightclub in Los Angeles, The Mocambo, refused to book Ella Fitzgerald to perform because she was black.

In the words of Ella Fitzgerald,

“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of The Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman, a little ahead of her times. And, she didn’t know it.”.