by Zaina A.G

Spouse

2015-02-25 06:21:51 UTC

He had 3 wives during his life.

Mary Slattery (m. 1940; div. 1956)
Marilyn Monroe (m. 1956; div. 1961)
Inge Morath (m. 1962; died 2002)

Youth

zainaabugharbie — 2015-02-25 06:23:29 UTC

Born in Harlem, New York on October 17th 1915, Arthur Miller attended the University of Michigan before moving back east to produce plays for the stage. His first critical and popular success was Death of a Salesman, which opened on Broadway in 1949. HIs family lost their money during the wall street crash in 1929, moving to East side in Manhattan. After graduating high school, Miller worked a few odd jobs to save enough money to attend the University of Michigan. While in college, he wrote for the student paper and complete his first play, No Villain.

History

2015-02-25 06:26:18 UTC

Arthur Miller was born to a Jewish family in New York in 1915. His grandparents had come to America from Poland. When the family business failed, they moved to Brooklyn, where A View from the Bridge is set. There, Arthur worked in a warehouse to earn money for his university fees.

Context

2015-02-25 06:31:54 UTC

In 1947, Arthur Miller was doing research on Pete Panto, a young Longshoreman who was executed by the mob for attempting to revolt against union leadership. He was told an interesting story about another Longshoreman in the area who had ratted to the Immigration Bureau on his own relatives. The Longshoreman was attempting to prevent the marriage between one of the brothers and his niece. The man was scorned and ostracized in the community and soon disappeared. In the community it was rumored that one of the brothers had killed him. Eight years later, in 1955, the one-act version of A View from the Bridge, based on the story of that same Longshoreman, was produced.

Death

joegreenwood246 — 2015-02-25 06:32:14 UTC

Arthur Miller died on 10 February 2005 (the 56th anniversary of the Broadway debut of death of a salesman) because of heart failure in his battle against cancer, pneumonia and congestive heart disease, he died in his home in Roxbury ,Connecticut age 89.

2015-02-25 06:36:57 UTC

Playwriting career

zainaabugharbie — 2015-02-25 06:37:40 UTC

His career started out a slightly rocky: His 1940 play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, garnered precisely the antithesis of its title, closing after just four performances and a stack of woeful reviews. Six years later, however, All My Sons achieved success on Broadway, and earned him his first Tony Award (best author).

What has he written

2015-02-25 06:45:12 UTC

No Villain (1936) They Too Arise (1937, based on No Villain) Honors at Dawn (1938, based on They Too Arise) The Grass Still Grows (1938, based on They Too Arise The Great Disobedience (1938 Listen My Children (1939, with Norman Rosten The Golden Years (1940) The Man Who Had All the Luck (1940)^[61]The Half-Bridge (1943) All My Sons (1947) Death of a Salesman (1949) An Enemy of the People (1950, based on Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People) The Crucible (1953) A View from the Bridge (1955) A Memory of Two Mondays (1955) After the Fall (1964) Incident at Vichy (1964) The Price (1968) The Reason Why (1970) Fame (one-act, 1970; revised for television 1978) The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977)

Quotes

joegreenwood246 — 2015-02-25 06:51:16 UTC