Angelina Jolie won’t be playing Marilyn Monroe after all.

Earlier this week, author Andrew O’Hagan said the actress, 35, would portray the blonde bombshell in the movie version of his novel, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog. But the Oscar winner’s rep tells the Los Angeles Times: “Angelina is NOT attached to this project.” Jolie, who has been promoting Salt in Europe this week, also shot down the report. “This is a new rumor,” she told reporters at the Salt premiere in London Monday. “It sounds very nice – I just haven’t got the phone call yet. You guys will probably know before I do.”

Source: US Magazine

After Michelle Williams another Hollywood star might be taking up a role as Marilyn Monroe. Angelina Jolie (35) is rumoured to be playing Marilyn in a movie version of The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, so tells author Andrew O’Hagan tells The London Telegraph. Frank Sinatra will be portrayed by George Clooney.
An official announcement has not been made.
‘The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe’ follows Monroe’s last two years through the eyes of her pet, Maf, a Maltese terrier which was a gift from Sinatra in 1960.

Angelina Jolie said: “I would be honored [to play the role], but we haven’t gotten the script yet.”

Source: US Magazine

I found the following article on the website of Dailymail.co.uk:

On Sunday, August 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe was found naked and face-down on her bed at her home on Fifth Helena Drive, at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Brentwood, California. She was 36 years old.
‘The long troubled star clutched a telephone in one hand. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was nearby,’ reported the Associated Press that morning.

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The Brentwood house in the Los Angeles suburb, once owned by Marilyn Monroe and where she has died, is up for sale for $3.6 million.
The house that was built in 1929 in a Spanish colonial style is 2,624-square-foot one-story house built. It has four bedrooms, three baths and a swimming pool.

You can find more pictures and details on the house on the website of real estate agent David Offer.

Marilyn Monroe’s chest x-ray has fetched 45000 dollars at auction. A set of three Monroe chest X-rays, has been received from a hospital to which she paid a visit in 1954, reports CBS news. The X-Ray was auctioned at the Hollywood Legends auction at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Julien’s Auctions, which sold the X-rays, estimated that they would only fetch a total of about 3,000 dollars, but to their surprise it fetched more than expected. Other Monroe-abilia that was sold included a chair from her last photo shoot that was auctioned for 35,000 dollars.

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It’s like a dream coming true: Marilyn Monroe’s writing will be published as a book! In the fall of 2010 the book, that will carry the title ‘Fragments’, will come out. The writings are the estate of Anna Strasberg, the wife of late Lee Strasberg who was Marilyn’s friend and acting coach.

Below you can read what Reuters (press agency) wrote about it.

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I’ve come across some articles that say that new photographs of Marilyn are found and now up for sale. I looked at the pictures but as far as I know, these aren’t new. Now I’m wondering if I’m wrong…

Anyway, the photographs are indeed amazing and I love how Marilyn looks in them.

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A few months ago it was reported that Scarlett Johansson was leading a list of actress under consideration to play Marilyn Monroe in director Simon Curtis’ biopic, My Week with Marilyn. Kate Hudson, Amy Adams and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) were also mentioned as possible contenders for the role.

Production Weekly has now learned that Johansson is out of the running and that its Williams who is in-talks with Curtis to top line the movie, set to begin lensing in June, 2010.

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I just love it when rare images or footage of Marilyn is found. Such has happened today, when I came across a video with Marilyn in it, sitting with friends, smoking a cigarette, laughing, having fun. Although many sources say the footage is from the late 50′s, I’m certain it’s from around 1954, looking at her hair and general appearance.
Enjoy!

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By Ina Jaffe

People will spend a lot of money to live near the rich and famous. For the dead and famous, arguably no neighborhood is more desirable than the mausoleum at the Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Los Angeles.

Among the many stars resting there is the iconic Marilyn Monroe, and the crypt directly above hers was recently auctioned on eBay. A Japanese man bid more than $4.6 million to spend eternity as Monroe’s upstairs neighbor. But the Los Angeles Times reports that he reneged on the deal in an e-mail, saying, “I need to cancel this because of the paying problem.”

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