Why Arthur Miller paid a price for greatness
In John Lahr’s new biography, the ‘Death of a Salesman’ writer’s inner life explains the plays we know
In John Lahr’s new biography, the ‘Death of a Salesman’ writer’s inner life explains the plays we know
Andrew Domink’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel casts Adrien Brody as a foil to DiMaggio
A bright white prayer book, published in 1922 and owned by American bombshell Marilyn Monroe, will be sold at auction on November 12. Jonathan Greenstein, of the auction house J. Greenstein & Company, says he’s sold Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah and Alan Dershowitz’s judaica, “But nothing like this — Marilyn Monroe’s personal siddur.” Hubba hubba….
60 years after the original film’s premiere, “Some Like it Hot” — the legendary Billy Wilder-directed comedy about two musicians who dress in drag and join an all-female band led by Marilyn Monroe to escape the mob — will come to Broadway. According to The New York Times’s Michael Paulson, producers Craig Nadan and Neil…
On May 2, 1949, Arthur Miller, then 33, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for “Death of a Salesman.” It was one of several remarkable moments in what was, for Miller, a remarkable year. “Death of a Salesman” swept up most of the season’s available theatrical awards, including the Tony Award for Best Author,…
The Brentwood, LA home that once belonged to Marilyn Monroe is back on the market. The actress purchased the four bedroom, three bathroom house in 1962, following her divorce from Arthur Miller. She had only lived in the house for a few months before she was found dead in her bedroom, as a result of…
At the Jewish Museum’s “Becoming Jewish: Warhol’s Liz & Marilyn” exhibit September 24 pre-opening reception a woman looking at Monroe’s conversion document exclaimed: “I knew Elizabeth converted but I didn’t know Marilyn Monroe did too!” For Taylor and Monroe fans this show is a nostalgic treat. Struck by a huge display of 40 movie magazine…
On a spring day in 1956, Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg paid a visit to Marilyn Monroe’s New York City apartment. Before the 30-year-old actress tied the knot with playwright Arthur Miller that summer, she wanted to convert to Judaism. In a neatly typed letter set inside a display case at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit…
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