Blondes have more fun: Angelina Jolie to star as Marilyn Monroe in new movie
By Sarah Bull in The Daily Mail
 16th August 2010

Angelina Jolie is to star as Marilyn Monroe in a new film about the Hollywood bombshell, it has been revealed.

The 35-year-old actress is set to play Monroe in an adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog, And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, the author revealed at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday.

And George Clooney has been lined up to play Monroe's close friend Frank Sinatra, O'Hagan confirmed, adding that production on the film would begin soon.

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Blonde bombshell: Angelina Jolie, seen left in film Life Or Something Like It (2002)  is set to play Marilyn Monroe in a new film about the last two years of her life

Footnote:
The Bookman is especially interested in this report as he has just finished reading the sensational ANGELINA - an unauthorised biography by Andrew Morton (Harper Collins).