Arthur+Miller

=Arthur Miller = Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the [|House Un-American Activities Committee], received the [|Pulitzer Prize for Drama] , and was married to [|Marilyn Monroe]. When Miller applied in 1956 for a routine renewal of his passport, the HUAC used this opportunity to [|subpoena] him to appear before the committee. Before appearing, Miller asked the committee not to ask him to name names, to which the chairman agreed. When Miller attended the hearing, to which Monroe accompanied him, risking her own career, he gave the committee a detailed account of his political activities (leaving out the fact that he was a communist party member). Reneging on the chairman's promise, the committee asked him to reveal the names of friends and colleagues who had participated in similar activities. Miller refused to comply with the request, saying //"I could not use the name of another person and bring trouble on him."// As a result a judge found Miller guilty of [|contempt of Congress] in May 1957. Miller was fined $500, sentenced to thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a U.S. passport. In 1958 his conviction was overturned by the court of appeals, which ruled that Miller had been misled by the chairman of the HUAC. Miller's career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and at the time of his death, Miller was considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. After his death, many respected actors, directors, and producers paid tribute to Miller, some calling him the last great practitioner of the American stage, and [|Broadway theatres] darkened their lights in a show of respect. Miller's alma mater, the University of Michigan opened the Arthur Miller Theatre in March, 2007. Per his express wish, it is the only theatre in the world that bears Miller's name. [|Christopher Bigsby] wrote //Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography// based on boxes of papers Miller made available to him before his death in 2005. The book was published in November 2008, and is reported to reveal unpublished works in which Miller "bitterly attack[ed] the injustices of American racism long before it was taken up by the civil rights movement". Miller's papers are housed at the [|Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center] at The University of Texas at Austin.
 * Arthur Asher Miller** (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an [|American] [|playwright] and [|essayist] . He was a prominent figure in [|American theatre], writing [|dramas] that include plays such as // [|All My Sons] //, // [|Death of a Salesman] //, and // [|The Crucible] //.



Stage plays

 * [|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)
 * 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)
 * Fame (television play, 1970)
 * [|The Creation of the World and Other Business] (1972)
 * [|The Archbishop's Ceiling] (1977)
 * [|The American Clock] (1980)
 * [|Playing For Time] (television play, 1980)
 * [|Elegy for a Lady] (short play, 1982, first part of Two Way Mirror)
 * [|Some Kind of Love Story] (short play, 1982, second part of Two Way Mirror)
 * I Think About You a Great Deal (1986)
 * Playing for Time (stage version, 1985)
 * [|I Can’t Remember Anything] (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
 * Clara (1987, collected in Danger: Memory!)
 * [|The Last Yankee] (1991)
 * [|The Ride Down Mt. Morgan] (1991)
 * [|Broken Glass] (1994)
 * [|Mr Peter’s Connections] (1998)
 * [|Resurrection Blues] (2002)
 * [|Finishing the Picture] (2004)

**Links**
 * [|www.kirjasto.sci.fi/a] [|**miller**] [|.htm]
 * [|www.neh.gov/whoweare/] [|**miller**] [|/biography.html]
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