Anna Nicole cut from Marilyn Monroe part just before death

Anna Nicole Smith often compared herself to Marilyn Monroe, and evidently she wanted to play her in a movie pretty badly.

Anna Nicole even offere to finance a film about Marilyn's husband Joe DiMaggio if producers would let her play Marilyn. 

"DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight" author Marv Schneider told the Daily News that Smith was turned down.

"She offered to at least partially finance it, about six months before she died," Schneider said. "The screenplay was finished in the summer."

Schnider was brutally honest about why Anna Nicole didn't get the part.

"It was rejected out of hand. She wasn't considered ready," he said at Zocalo restaurant. "Also, if she got the role, we thought we'd have a tough time getting a top actor to play DiMaggio."

That's almost as low as Smith estranged mother Virgie Arthur walking on her grave.

To make things a little more creepy, Florida's Memorial Regional Hospital, where Anna Nicole died has a wing named after Joe DiMaggio.