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Arthur Miller: Social Conscience and star of the tabloids – ABC Online

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“The Death of a Salesman “and the marriage with Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller made world famous. But he also had a dark secret. Today the playwright would have been 100 years old

The American Way of Life, he has always criticized – for which he was celebrated and fights. Today the American writer Arthur Miller would be (1915 -2005) have been 100 years old. Until recently – Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89 years – he had repeatedly denounced the US policy of George W. Bush. Previously, he was active in the civil rights movement and fought against the Vietnam War. In 1956, he refused to name names him known communists in front of a committee of inquiry and was therefore condemned, inter alia, to imprisonment. The sentence was later overturned

His major works

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During his studies at the University of Michigan -. Only economics and history, later he switched to literature and drama – Miller celebrated its first successes. With only 33 years he won the Pulitzer Prize: for “Death of a Salesman” until today his most famous drama. It deals with the conflict between Willy Loman, a salesman who does not want to admit his failure, and his son Biff, who also fails as a commercial traveler. He also discovers that his father has an extramarital affair. The piece was filmed several times, the most famous being the Schlöndorff version with Dustin Hoffman (1985), the German adaptation with Heinz Rühmann (1968) and the version with Fredric March (1951).

Also, the drama “The Crucible” from 1953 multiplied Arthur Miller’s fame. The plot is based on real events: In 1692 a group of girls is surprised at an occult ritual in Salem. To avoid punishment, they play against attacks and accuse many villagers to have instigated it. Miller is said to have written the piece as a commentary on hunting communists in the McCarthy era (1947 to about 1956). Also helped that the writer was at this time when America opponents. “The Crucible” was also filmed, among others in 1996 with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis

Other works Millers. such as “All My Sons”, “The Moment of Truth” or “View from the Bridge” have been filmed. After a short story and a screenplay by Arthur Miller, there was also the strip “Misfits – The Misfits” where his wife Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962 ) played the leading role …

His marriage to Marilyn Monroe and the secret son

That the intellectuals Miller became a star for the gossip press, of course, had to do with Marilyn Monroe. After his first marriage to Mary Grace Slattery, with whom he has a daughter and a son who he married in 1956 the Hollywood star. The marriage lasted five years, and was divorced in January 1961 in mutual agreement. Reasons numerous disputes and Monroes infertility apply. From 1962 until her death in 2002 Miller was then married to the Austrian photographer Inge Morath. With her he has two other children. 2007 became known through an article in the “Vanity Fair” that Miller had kept the existence of his living in a home youngest son with Down syndrome largely secret from the public.

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