"
Let Me Be Your Star" is an original song introduced in the first episode of the first season of the musical TV series
Smash, entitled
Pilot. It was written by
Marc Shaiman and
Scott Wittman, but in the show's universe, it was written by songwriting duo Tom Levitt (
Christian Borle) and Julia Houston (
Debra Messing) for the Marilyn Monroe musical they are working on,
Bombshell.