Michelle Williams looked absolutely stunning at the AFI Festival premiere of her new movie, ‘My Week With Marilyn’ last night in Hollywood.

She’s wearing a gorgeous gold Oscar de la Renta gown. Several sites say they don’t care for the dress, but I think she looks great! It’s very typical of Michelle – but that’s not a bad thing in this case.

And in case you missed it, she’s keeping that short hair as an ode to Heath Ledger:

“What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. The only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair! I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it. I’ve really grown into it. I feel like myself with short hair.”

Also pictured: Dominic Cooper, her costar.

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Although there aren’t many fans of Michelle William’s short do, she is keeping it as a memorial to Heath Ledger, her late ex -boyfriend and the father of her daughter, Matilda.

The actress revealed to UK Elle magazine: “What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. I’ve really grown into it, I feel like myself with short hair. And it’s been a really long time since I’ve had long hair, five years. Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends,” jokes the 31 year-old. “Straight men across the board are not into this hair!”

“I cut it for the one straight man [Ledger] who has ever like short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.”

What do you guys think? Love it or hate it?

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After years of planning and funding, it looks like a Grace Kelly movie is in the works. Deadline reports that the movie will cover a year and a half period in 1962 when the princess helped save Monaco.

20th Century figures seem to be the rage, from Colin Firth’s King George VI in The King’s Speech to Michelle Williams’ portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn to Meryl Streep’s upcoming turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. The next figure to watch out for: actress-turned-Monaco princess Grace Kelly. Shortly after his agents began circulating the Arash Amel script Grace of Monaco, producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam has agreed to fully fund a $15 million project that is now out to directors and will soon look for an actress to play Princess Grace. The film covers a half year period in 1962, when French leader Charles De Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainier III were at odds over Monaco’s standing as a tax haven. France gave Monaco six months to reform its tax laws, and the situation escalated. By that time, Kelly (33 at the time) had given up her acting career to become a full time princess, and the film details her political manuevering behind the scenes to save Monaco. The CAA-repped Amel scripted the Aaron Eckhart-starrer The Expatriate.

Hollywood has been buzzing all week about which Hollywood actress should play the -year-old princess. This is a tall order, who could play the classic, beautiful, smart and elegant Kelly? (It’s like casting someone to play Aubrey Hepburn! How can it be done?)

There have been many names thrown into the mix as who should play Kelly. Here are some of them:

Michelle Williams: In my opinion, Michelle is too obvious. After portraying Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn”, I don’t think she would get this part. I don’t know if Michelle could pull it off, either. She’s more ……. brooding (she always plays such sad characters!)? I don’t know if she could do elegant and classy. I could be wrong!

January Jones: Unlike Michelle Williams, I do think January could pull off elegant and classy. She has a timeless face – and as we’ve seen in ‘Mad Men’ she really can pull off that gorgeous 60′s look. BUT what’s working against January is she really is a terrible actress. Horrible. In no way could she pull off that kind of role.

Amber Heard: Amber is definitely Hollywood’s It-Girl right now. Having starred in the short-lived ‘Playboy Club’, Amber is now starring opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’. She could definitely pull of the 60′s glam look – my only question would be in her acting. But in all fairness, I’ve only really seen her in ‘The Playboy Club’ and I won’t hold that against her.

Charlize Theron: You guys seem to like the Charlize Theron suggestion, so I’ve added her here. I agree, to an extent. I think she’s an amazing actress, but like Michelle Williams - I think she thrives in serious roles. I’m not sure if she could play the elegant Grace. I think out of all the choices, however, Charlize might be the best pick.

Other names thrown in the mix: Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively.

Who do you think should get the role?

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Carey Mulligan and Michelle Williams appeared at last night’s Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills. Which Oscar-nominated-Mia-Farrow-wannabe actress looks better?

Is it Carey, who’s wearing Bottega Veneta, or Michelle, who’s wearing Nina Ricci?

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Michelle William’s Hollywood is very different than Marilyn’s. Today, the skinnier the better. Not so in Marilyn’s day.

Williams says that she first tried to gain wait to approximate the legendary MM curves. She even worked with a choreographer to learn how to walk like the sex goddess. The walk was a no brainer but the body was a problem.

Michelle’s face become swollen with the weight. She says, “So at some point it became a question of, Do I want my face to look like Marilyn Monroe’s or my hips.” Williams went for the face and never looked back. She wears subtle padding in the flick to give the look of Lady M’s Coca-Cola bottle curves.

Michelle tells Vogue that she studied Ms. Monroe non-stop. The actress immersed herself in Marilyn’s films, diaries and interviews. “My Week With Marilyn” is based on memoirs by filmmaker Colin Clark. Clark was an assistant director for the film “The Prince and The Showgirl” starring Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier.

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

Michelle says that it was eye opening to hear of Marilyn’s feelings of personal power when walking down a beach in a bathing suit. According to Williams, “Any messages that I got as a child about what it is to have a woman’s body or to be sexual were all negative — that people wouldn’t take you seriously or that they would take advantage of you. So I couldn’t relate to that at all.” Williams learned while perfectly Marilyn’s wiggle and gaining the attention of onlooking men that it was about her pleasure, not their pleasure.

The Vogue interviewer notes that although Williams has come across as guarded in previous interviews she now seems open and even relaxed. The actress explained that she has both turned 30 and found her voice. “I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it.” It is this expressiveness that has Marilyn fans eagerly anticipating her performance. Michelle has the tools; now the film will let us know whether these life lessons translate on screen.

The new British movie “My Week With Marilyn” will be released on November 4th, 2011. Other actresses originally considered for the role include Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams. What do you think? Did producers cast the right person? How do you think that Michelle will do?

PICS: Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne at the premiere of “My Week With Marilyn” in New York City.

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After hearing about ‘My Week With Marilyn’ forever, we’re finally getting our first look at the trailer! The movie stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in this new movie, based on a true story.

I think Michelle looks amazing, and to me, looks like she gives an amazing performance.

There have been, incredibly, mixed reviews on her efforts to look like the star, but from the just-released first trailer from “My Week With Marilyn,” there’s no disputing her ability to channel the desperation, fear and playfulness that made Monroe perhaps the most famous woman on the 20th century.

She skates between depression and carefree ease in the story of Monroe’s first — and disastrous — trip to England, to film a movie with the legendary Sir Laurence Olivier. The trailer, and some of the film, recounts her interaction and brief fling with Colin Clark, one of production assistants on the film, who wrote a book documenting the entire event.

Williams has spoken of her efforts to learn as much as she could about Monroe’s personality and struggle, but in a recent interview with Vogue, she did allow that she channeled her allure, too.

“I do remember one moment of being all suited up as Marilyn and walking from my dressing room onto the soundstage practicing my wiggle,” Williams tells the magazine. “There were three or four men gathered around a truck, and I remember seeing that they were watching me come and feeling that they were watching me go–and for the very first time I glimpsed some idea of the pleasure I could take in that kind of attention; not their pleasure but my pleasure. And I thought, Oh, maybe Marilyn felt that when she walked down the beach.”

Opening at the New York Film Festival, the picture could earn Williams her third Academy Award nomination. Watch above and tell us if you think she’ll be worthy.

Can’t wait!

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The Oscar nominated actress opens up in the new issue of Hobo Magazine. Michelle tells the magazine “I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living. Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge. And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell. It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.”

Following the death of her ex, Heath Leger, Michelle threatened to quit Hollywood after the paparazzi stalked her every step.

“If it gets to the point where I can’t situate my life in a way that they stay away more, then I’ll drop a match on the thing,” she told Newsweek. “I’ll be sad. I like to act. It’s saved my life over and over again. It’s given me a sense of self-esteem, self-worth. I have this thing that I’m in love with–acting–and now it has this baggage.

Last year, while promoting “Blue Valentine,” she spoke of that film rekindling her love for the job.

“You experience this terrible sense of loss and it was very hard to find some meaning to all of it,” she told OK Magazine. “It was very hard for me to think about work anymore because I found myself cut off from the outside world… Making Blue Valentine restored my desire and enjoyment in acting again, that was the first time I felt like myself again… It helped me feel good again in a way that I hadn’t felt like in several years. It rekindled my spirit in many ways.”

Williams will also soon appear in the Sarah Polley relationship drama, “Take This Waltz,” co-starring Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman.

I can’t wait to see her new movie, ‘My Week With Marilyn’. Looks great!

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