Willa Ford is set to star in the film Anna Nicole. According to sources inthe US, the singer and dancer has been chosed to portray the former Playboy Playmate in the biopic of her tragic life. Filming is due to begin next week, with Keoni Waxman directing. The film will chart Anna Nicole's life from a 17-year-old trying to make it out of her native Texas up until her death from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 39 in February. Anna Nicole Smith was a Guess model and actress, who shot to notoriety for marrying billionaire J. Howard Marshall II shortly before his death. Anna Nicole's son Daniel died from a drugs overdose just days after the birth of her daughter Dannielynn in the Bahamas last September. Five months later, Anna Nicole met with the same fate and was found unconscious in a Florida hotel room. Photographer Larry Birkhead has been named as Dannielynn's father. |