Arthur Miller (19 15-2005) was born in new york and graduated from the University of Michigan. He is the most outstanding playwright in America for half a century. He has written My Son, Death of a Salesman and The Witch of Salem and Vichy. 1987, Miller wrote a memoir, Time Bending, and in his 70s, he also wrote plays, Stepping on Mount Morgan and The Last Yankee. His works are critical and outspoken, and are regarded as the representative of conscience in the 20th century. Among them, Death of a Salesman is his most influential masterpiece.
Arthur Miller won numerous awards in his life, including 1949 Pulitzer Prize, twice new york Drama Critics Award and Olivier Best Drama Award.
1953 At the height of the Cold War, Miller wrote his most famous play TheCrucible. The play was written in response to Senator McCarthy's suppression of so-called sympathizers of the * * * production party. At the age of 80, he also wrote The Complete Picture, a work alluding to Monroe.
"Finished Product Map" is the last time to deal with Monroe, a beautiful and dark field in his mind. The story in the play took place in a film shooting process in Nevada, USA from 65438 to 0960. Kitty, an extremely unstable actress, can't perform because she is out of control. She overspent the film and put the crew at risk. At this critical moment, the actors related to this film gathered in the hotel to discuss how to arouse the drug-addicted actress to cheer up and continue filming.
He is Monroe's ex-husband.
The combination of Monroe and Arthur Miller. Marilyn wrote "Hope, Hope, Hope" in the wedding photos. On the other hand, Miller's wedding ring reads: "This moment is eternity". The world will wait and see this marriage.
Monroe and Arthur Miller were introduced by Monroe's friend and teacher Lee Stursberg during the filming of 195 1 Forever Youth. Before marriage, every movie of Marilyn was a box office success, especially in The Seven-Year Itch, where she stood on the hollow iron plate at the subway entrance and the wind blowing from below blew up her skirt, which became the most famous scene in her movies.
In the days when she first married Miller, Monroe was radiant and often talked happily about how she learned to be Miller's wife and her experience of baking bread and making noodles. But once a friend came to her house, only to find that the kitchen was empty and both husband and wife were in a bad mood. Obviously, there is no room for two geniuses in one family.
Later, Monroe would go to Lee Stursberg's house every time he quarreled with Miller. She is increasingly dependent on barbiturates and other sedatives. Monroe always uses champagne when she takes medicine. Gradually, the medicine also lost its calming effect. Monroe is often in an uncertain mood. She always complains that Miller treats her like a child and always looks like his entourage. Miller stopped writing at that time and began to live on Monroe.
After 1960, Monroe became increasingly depressed. She had an affair with someone else just to make her husband jealous. But Miller didn't take her infidelity seriously. Susan wrote in her biography, "He didn't blame her, she was annoyed." "Miller wants her to play the leading role in his own film" The Inappropriate Man ",which is more important to him than anything else. Marilyn didn't like the role, but in the end she agreed and their marriage was over. "
Cao Yu: I haven't heard of you.
From 65438 to 0978, arthur miller visited China, and the state arranged for Cao Yu to receive him. Miller knew that the first playwright in China was Cao Yu, but Cao Yu said to him, "Are you an American playwright? I have never heard of you. " Miller is not very happy. To make up for the influence, Huang told Miller in Shanghai: "We introduced you a long time ago and published the outline of your play in internal publications." Miller was so happy that Huang asked him to recommend a play of his own to the audience in China. He recommended "TheCrucible".
198 1 When the play was staged in Shanghai People's Art Theatre, it was renamed "The Witch of Salem" in order to attract the audience. The play was a great success, with more than 50 performances in a row. The audience felt that the unjust cases reflected in the play were similar to many unjust prisons caused by the Gang of Four. After watching the performance, an audience told Miller that she couldn't believe that the play was written by an American. Others wrote to Huang: "History is often strikingly similar, and this lesson is too profound. The tragedy of history must not be repeated. "
1983 At the invitation of Ying Ruocheng, Arthur Miller came to Tsinghua University to translate Ying Ruocheng's Death of a Salesman. China also has a tradition of performing Miller's works.
Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband and great playwright Arthur Miller died.
Arthur miller, a famous American playwright, died of heart failure on Thursday night. At the age of 89. Death of a Salesman made him recognized as one of the greatest playwrights in the 20th century, and his marriage with Marilyn Monroe made him the most entertaining playwright.
In the decade after World War II, Arthur Miller, together with Eugene O 'Neill and tennessee williams, not only dominated the American stage, but also made Broadway advance by leaps and bounds, and their plays were also popular all over the world.
"We lost a giant." Robert Fowles, director of the new Broadway play Death of a Salesman, said, "He showed extraordinary art."
Playwright edward ablee recalled that Miller praised his plays with "what we need", and Albee said, "I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are what we need."
It took arthur miller only six weeks to create the work Death of a Salesman, which brought him an immortal reputation. It was released on Broadway on 1949 and directed by the famous director iria Kazan. Roman, the hero, became a classic image on the stage. He is full of desire to get ahead, but he is also greedy for money. His stubborn belief in American success finally destroyed him. "Literally, Death of a Salesman is a drama about a salesman, but it has become a part of the myth, not only in the United States, but also in other parts of the world." Arthur miller said in an interview with 1988. Death of a Salesman has also been
Arthur miller successfully "marketed" to China. 1978 Mr. and Mrs. arthur miller visited China, and Mr. Cao Yu received him. 1983, arthur miller personally directed his Death of a Salesman, which was the first foreign drama staged in China after the Cultural Revolution.
Arthur miller also wrote many other important plays, such as Crucible, which satirized McCarthyism in 1953, and My Master, which was first successful on Broadway in 1947.
Arthur Miller married the movie star Marilyn Monroe on 1956, which was Arthur Miller's second marriage and Marilyn Monroe's last marriage. This marriage made Arthur Miller barely a public figure. In an interview with a French newspaper on 1992, Arthur Miller described his marriage with Monroe as "self-destruction". "All my energy and attention are used to help her solve her endless problems. Unfortunately, what I did was not very successful. "
The marriage ended in failure five years later, but it provided arthur miller with the material for two plays, one was After the Slip in 1964, and the other was The Portrait Being Completed, which was staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago last year, which can be said to be his last important work. 196 1 the movie "untimely man" was specially made by Arthur Miller for Monroe, and it was also her last film.
1962 Arthur miller married photographer Inge Mallasz, and Monroe committed suicide in the same year.
Although the forties and fifties of last century was the peak of arthur miller's creation, he still maintained the vitality and space of his creation in the next 40 years. 199 1 The play Down Mount Morgan premiered in London, which is the first time that he has performed his own works outside the United States.
Arthur Miller was born in 19 15 10 year 10 month 17, and was born in a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a clothing manufacturer, but during the Great Depression, Arthur Miller had no money to go to college. While studying at the University of Michigan, Miller had to work in a warehouse in new york. 1938, got a bachelor's degree.
He began to write plays when he was in college. "Lucky Man" was his first Broadway performance, and 1944 only had four rehearsals. Arthur miller also published several collections of novels and short stories, and some travel notes with his wife Mullah, telling their travels in Russia and China.
Arthur Miller and Maura have a daughter named Rebecca, who married the famous actress Daniel Day Lewis.