Pawsome Pet Pictures: Marilyn Monroe.

Muggsie: Jim Dougherty bought his wife a pet collie named Muggsie. However, after she began her modeling career, Norma Jeane had less time for her dog.

A Chihuahua: At the time she was signed by Columbia Pictures in 1948, Marilyn Monroe owned a pet Chihuahua.

Mitsou: Mitsou was a white Persian cat that Marilyn Monroe owned in New York in the mid 1950s.

Hugo: A basset hound who lived with MM and Arthur Miller at their apartment in New York.

Maf: Maf was a little white French poodle who was given to MM in New York by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra had purchased the dog from Natalie Wood's mother. As has been widely reported, Marilyn named the dog "Maf" because of Frank Sinatra's alleged mafia connections. lnterestingly, to spite Arthur Miller, Marilyn used to let Maf sleep on an expensive white beaver coat that Miller had presented her. When Marilyn returned to live in Hollywood, she had Maf flown back to be with her. Following her death, Maf was inherited by Frank Sinatra's secretary, Gloria Lovell.

Actress: Charlize Theron, my pick for the Marilyn Monroe Movie.

No disrespect to Michelle Williams, but in my opinion.. I would have loved to have seen Charlize Theron, get the part in the new movie.. My Week With Marilyn Monroe. I think that she looks more like, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron(born 7 August 1975). At the age of sixteen, Theron travelled to Milan after winning a local competition. She went to New York with Pauline's Model Management. After her one year contract ended, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury ended her career at 19.

After which, Theron flew to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket. Soon after, she went to a bank to cash a cheque her mother had sent her, the teller refused to cash it. After getting into a shouting match with her, a talent agent in line behind her handed her his business card and introduced her to some casting agents and got her into acting school.

After several months, she was cast in a non-speaking role in the film, Children of the Corn III (1995). Her first speaking role was in the film, 2 Days in the Valley. Larger roles films followed, The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She was on the cover of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus".

Theron, later starred as the serial killer in the film, Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004,as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award.She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

On 30 September 2005, Theron received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the science fiction thriller, Æon Flux. Theron received Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her performance in the drama, North Country.

In 2005 Theron portrayed Rita, in the television series, Arrested Development. She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in the 2004 HBO film, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

In 2008, she also starred in the film, Hancock and in late 2008 she was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

In October 2009, Theron was cast to star in a sequel to the Mad Max films, titled Mad Max: Road Fury, which filmed at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia in late 2010. Theron has been cast in the role of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Video: Charlize Theron for J'Adore Dior fragrance, having historical famous Hollywood actress like, Marilyn Monroe!

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

November Issue Vanity Fair: The Art and Poetry of Marilyn Monroe.

A long-hidden collection of Marilyn Monroe’s private letters and diaries share many mysteries surrounding her life. Sam Kashner shares his thoughts and the revelations about Monroe’s life, loves, and death.

In Monroe's own words writes about her insecurities and her sex-bomb, smarter-than-she-looked dumb blonde image. The book, according to Vanity Fair's November edition, also details her "harrowing experience of psychoanalysis," her three failed marriages, and perhaps clues to her death at age 36.

Her poems range from sweet to despairing. The "Today" show recited a poem called "On Hospital Gowns: My bare derriere/is out in the air/when I'm not aware." Not all are so light, and even her words, wrote about her early days of her marriage to Miller, begin with affection, then turns macabre:

my love sleeps besides me -
in the faint light - I see his manly jaw
give way - and the mouth of his
boyhood returns
with a softness softer
its sensitiveness trembling
in stillness
his eyes must have look out
wonderously from the cave of the little
boy - when the things he did not understand - he forgot...

...but will he look like this when he is dead
oh unbearable fact inevitable
yet sooner would I rather his love die
than/or him?

Read more excerpts from Marilyn Monroe's secret diaries at Vanity Fair Website.

In Memory: Marilyn Monroe.

Some of my favorite Marilyn Monroe trivia:
In Marilyn Monroe personal library she had over 400 books on topics ranging from art, history, psychology, philosophy, literature, religion, poetry, and gardening. Many of her books, auctioned in 1999, had her pencil notations in the margins.

Her dog named Tippy was given to her by foster father Albert Bolender. Her final, unfinished film, Something's Got to Give (1962), the dog was also named Tippy.

Often carried around the book, "The Biography of Abraham Lincoln."

Was an outstanding player on the Hollygrove Orphanage softball team.

Wore glasses.

My favorite Marilyn Monroe movie is, How to marry a Millionaire(1954). The story is about three New York models who move into a Manhattan penthouse apartment looking for eligible millionaires to marry. All three fall in love with men who may not be as rich as they were hoping. Now they have to decide to marry for.. love or money?

Marilyn Monroe's 48th Anniversary

Just a mention that today marks the 48th anniversary of Marilyn's tragic death. Let us honor her today by keeping her alive through memories, film, stories, and photos.