Here are some of the key revelations from the documentary. 'If we can get to the point where people understand her better and just don't judge her as much, then that will make me very happy.' 'I would like people to come away with more empathy for her, more understanding, perhaps fall in love with her a bit, as I think us, the filmmaking team have, and show that she was complex,' Macfarlane tells USA TODAY. 'You Don't Know Me' director Ursula Macfarlane rejects the notion that Smith was a gold digger and hopes her film can change viewers' opinions of the bombshell, who died in 2007 at age 39. Smith posed in Playboy, modeled for Guess and acted in '90s comedies like “The Hudsucker Proxy” and “Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult.” Marshall supported the ambitious Smith as she made her name − even if it wasn’t the one she was born with (Vickie Lynn Hogan).

Howard Marshall at a Houston strip club in 1991, where she was dancing to finance a better life for herself and her young son. “I’m living proof.” And for a time, she was. Netflix’s “ Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me” (streaming now) eerily opens with the late model encouraging the audience “just to follow their dreams.” “They can come true,” she says.

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