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Although it was not originally successful, why did The Misfits become something of a cult favorite? Costars Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift died within the next 5 years

Describe Arthur Miller's place in his family - Middle child in a Jewish family

Describe Miller's family background - Father-Polish immigrant who became successful in the garment industry mother-daughter of Polish immigrants

Even though his reputation declined the United States what happened in England? - He steadily gain recognition and garnered praise

For what work did he win his first prize? - No Villain

How did critics react to After the Fall? - Audiences and critics accused Miller of staging a vengeful dramatization of his own marriage to get back at Monroe

How did critics react to All My Sons? - It was awarded for being the best play of 1947

How did critics react to Death of a Salesman? - It was a major triumph and critics universally declared Miller one of the leading playwrights of the century

How did critics react to The Crucible? - It failed at the box office and received cool critical reception but also won a Tony Award

How did critics react to The Man Who Had All the Luck? - Critics found it too "talky" and it closed after 4 performances

How did the public view Monroe and Miller? - Monroe=victim Miller=villain who exploited her

How old was Miller when his father's business collapsed? Why? - 14; the Great Depression

Miller stated that his plays are not about ideas but __. - People and their feelings

To what college did he apply and when was he accepted? - University of Michigan; fall of 1934

Was Miller a good student at Abraham Lincoln High School? - No

What 2 maxims seem to govern Miller's work? - 1) adherence to conscience count in anyone's life 2) if hope and succor are to be found, they lie within one's family

What 2 works is Miller primarily remembered for? - Death of a Salesman and The Crucible

What became routine in the household due to the Great Depression? - Tensions over money

What did he do in between graduating high school and getting into college? - He worked several menial jobs and saved his earnings

What did he excel in while in high school? - Football

What did many people blame the failure of The Crucible on? - The director Joe Harris

What did Miller become increasingly involved in during the late and mid-1960s? - Mystic politics

What did Miller claim about After the Fall? - That it was pure fiction and was written to illustrate a larger theme of human self-destructiveness

What did New York Times call Miller? - "One of the great American playwrights"

What film script did Miller right for Monroe? - The Misfits

What happened at Miller's hearings? - He denied being a communist and refused to give the committee any names of possible communists

What happened to Miller's creative powers during his marriage to Monroe? - They declined

What happened with Miller's son Daniel? - He was born severely retarded and was placed in an institution shortly after birth.

What helped resuscitate Miller's career in 1984? - A Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman

What marked Miller for life? - The Great Depression

What provided inspiration for Death of a Salesman? - His family

What themes of Miller's works were based on the dark side of the American dream? - Dislocation and despair

What type of jobs did Miller work to support himself? - Journalism

What universal themes do Miller's characters act out? - Lost innocence and moral failure

What was his first Broadway produced drama and when was it performed? - The Man Who Had All the Luck; November 4,1944

What was The Crucible about? - The Salem witch trials held in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts; intended to draw parallels with contemporary anti communist zealotry(McCarthyism)

What was the first incident that lead to the severing of Miller and Kazan's friendship? - Miller developed a romantic relationship with Marilyn Monroe sometime in the early 1950s while Kazan was also romantically involved with Monroe

What was the relationship between Kazan and Miller like in 1947? - They were close friends

What was the second incident that lead to the severing of Miller and Kazan's friendship? - Kazan turned in Miller and several other liberal friends at the hearing of HUAC

What was the title of his reworking of No Villain? - The Grass Still Grows

What was theme in A View from the Bridge? - Sudden passion

What year did he graduate from the University of Michigan? What degree did he earn? - 1938; B.A. In literature

What year did He marry Mary Grace Slattery? - 1940

When did Death of a Salesman open? - February 1949

When did he graduate high school? - 1932

When did he marry Inge Morath? - 1962

When did Miller and Monroe divorce? - Shortly after The Misfits premiered in January 1951

When did Miller develop a love for literature? What caused this? - His senior year in high school; reading Crime and Punishment

When did Miller die? - February 10, 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut of congestive heart failure

When did Miller marry Marilyn Monroe? - June 29, 1956

When did the Miller-Monroe marriage began breaking up? - During the filming of The Misfits

When was All My Sons open? - January 1947

When was Arthur Miller born? - October 17, 1915

When was Death of a Salesman made into a film? - 1951

When was Miller elected president of PEN International? - 1965

When was The Crucible open? - 1953

Where did the Miller's move after Isidore's business collapsed? - Brooklyn

Where was Arthur Miller born? - New York City

Which of his novels examined anti-Semitism in the U.S.? - Focus (published in 1945)

Which of Miller's plays is a comedy? - The Creation of the World and Other Business(1972)

Which of Miller's plays is supposedly based on Miller's marriage to Monroe? - After the Fall

Which of Miller's plays marked a transformation in American drama? - Death of a Salesman

Which of Miller's works has been performed on nearly every continent and is often revived? - Death of a Salesman

Which of Miller's works is most frequently performed? - The Crucible

Who accompanied Miller to the HUAC hearings? - Marilyn Monroe

Who convinced Miller to make amends with his son? - His son-in-law Daniel Day-Lewis

Who directed All My Sons as a Hollywood film? - Elia Kazan

Who would many argue superseded Miller's literary excellence? - Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams

Whose freedom did he secure in 1966? - Woke Soyinka...