Michelle Williams has snagged the role of iconic screen stunner Marilyn Monroe in the forthcoming drama My Week With Marilyn, London columnist Baz Bamigboye revealed on Thursday.
The Brokeback Mountain star will play the Hollywood legend in the Simon Curtis-directed film that looks at what went on behind the scenes during the making of 1957’s The Prince And The Showgirl, which starred Marilyn and Laurence Olivier. Read the rest of this entry »
The burial vault above the grave of late screen siren Marilyn Monroe found no takers in a recent online auction. It is the second time that the bid for the marble crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery has been unsuccessful, BBC News reports.
The crypt above Marilyn Monroe is going back on the auction block.
In a bid to ward off foreclosure on her Los Angeles home, local widow Elsie Poncher first attempted to auction off her late husband’s crypt above the iconic film siren last August, but the $4.6 million winning bid fell through. Bidding for the marble mausoleum crypt, where Mr. Poncher has been buried for more than 20 years, will start at $500,000 Oct. 19, according to organizer Eric Gazin of AuctionCause.com. Gazin says he believes the crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery will fetch “millions of dollars.”
The new eBay.com auction will end Oct. 29 and require a 1 to 5 percent refundable deposit, based on the bid.
Other celebrities laid to rest in the Hollywood cemetery include Farrah Fawcett, Natalie Wood, Rodney Dangerfield, Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon, Eva Gabor, and Truman Capote.
Someone just spent a lot of money to spend eternity lying on top of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. The crypt directly above final resting place of the dearly-departed sex symbol fetched more than $4.6 million in an online auction that ended Monday.
Earlier this month, The Los Angeles Times that the seller was Elsie Poncher, who was putting her late husband’s crypt up for auction to help pay off the $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
The widow’s late husband, Richard Poncher, bought the crypt from Monroe’s former husband, Joe DiMaggio, during his 1954 divorce from Monroe. Poncher died 23 years ago at 81.
She has said that the remains of her husband will be moved sideways to a neighbouring plot to make room for the new occupant.
Monroe was buried in 1962 at a mausoleum in the Westood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Celebrities like Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Truman Capote, and Farrah Fawcett are buried in the same park.
