US film actor. The voluptuous blonde sex symbol of the 1950s, she made adroit comedies such as
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953),
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953),
The Seven Year Itch (1955),
Bus Stop (1956), and
Some Like It Hot (1959).
Her third husband was the playwright Arthur
Miller, who wrote
The Misfits (1960) for her, a serious film that became her last. She died as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills.
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