Marilyn and Ella friendship highlighted in Anne Ducros album French jazz singer Anne Ducros highlights the friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald in her new album, focusing on the help Monroe gave Fitzgerald by securing her gigs in a formerly all-white Hollywood club, an act that Ducros calls 'courageous'. Ducros performs Marilyn's 'You'd be surprised' for AFPTV. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.