Can't we be friends : a novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Bryce, Denny S.2024
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Total copies: 1
1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society's attitude toward women and race. Marilyn Monroe's star is rising despite ongoing battles with movie studio bigwigs and boyfriends. When she needs help with her singing, she wants only the best - and the best is the brilliant Ella Fitzgerald. But Ella isn't a singing teacher and declines - then the two women meet, and to everyone's surprise but their own, they become fast friends. On the surface, what could they have in common? Yet each was underestimated by the men in their lives - husbands, managers, hangers-on. And both were determined to gain. Each fought for professional independence and personal agency in a time when women were expected to surrender control to those same men.
Main title:
Can't we be friends : a novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe / Denny S. Bryce and Eliza Knight.
Author:
Bryce, Denny S., authorKnight, Eliza, author
Imprint:
New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2024.
Collation:
384 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780063282902 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
3761248