(She lost out to Karen, played by Katharine McPhee, a rivalry that will continue to play out next season.) Megan Hilty, who plays Ivy on Smash, spent this past season competing on the show to star as Monroe in a Broadway musical. Various DVD and Blu-ray collections of her classic films are being released this week. Turner Classic Movies will run a day-long Marilyn marathon on Saturday, and a documentary, Love, Marilyn, will make the rounds at film festivals nationwide this fall. She still appears on both the big screen - last year’s My Week With Marilyn, with Michelle Williams as Monroe - and the small one, in NBC’s Smash. From highbrow - dressed in Lanvin - to high camp, her skirt famously airborne in The Seven Year Itch. There is a flood of new books - fiction and non-fiction - analyzing her childhood, her final days, her passions and paradoxes. She also remains a publishing phenomenon. She still graces the covers of magazines - three times on the front of Vanity Fair in the past four years alone. The story is still fresh today, thanks to Monroe’s magic potion: beauty, sensuality, insecurity and talent, all mixed together with a giant dollop of mystery, a potion that has only grown stronger over the years.

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5, 1962, that the star was found dead in her Brentwood home in Los Angeles, naked and still clutching a phone. Could the iconic bombshell be any more alive? This article was published (3930 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

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