Arthur Miller Timeline

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1915 Arthur Miller born in New York City Arthur Asher Miller is born in Harlem, the son of a prosperous Polish-Jewish coat manufacturer.
1929 Miller's family ruined by the Crash The Wall Street Crash wipes out the family business, and the Millers move to a small house in Brooklyn.
1934 Miller enters the University of Michigan Arthur Miller studies journalism at the University of Michigan, paying his way with jobs, and starts writing plays.
1936 Miller wins the Hopwood Award Arthur Miller's first play, No Villain, wins Michigan's Avery Hopwood Award.
1944 Miller's first Broadway play flops Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck closes on Broadway after four performances.
1947 Miller's All My Sons opens Arthur Miller's play about a manufacturer who sold faulty aircraft parts opens on Broadway and wins the first Tony Award for a play.
1949 Miller's Death of a Salesman opens Arthur Miller's tragedy of the travelling salesman Willy Loman opens on Broadway with Lee J. Cobb and wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1951 Miller meets Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller meets the young actress Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood.
1953 Miller's The Crucible opens Arthur Miller's drama of the Salem witch trials, an allegory of McCarthyism, opens on Broadway.
1955 Miller's A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller's tragedy of a Brooklyn longshoreman opens on Broadway.
1956 Miller defies the Un-American Activities Committee Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC but refuses to name people he saw at communist writers' meetings.
1956 Miller marries Marilyn Monroe Arthur Miller marries Marilyn Monroe in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York.
1957 Miller convicted of contempt of Congress Arthur Miller is fined and given a suspended sentence. The conviction is overturned on appeal in 1958.
1961 Miller's The Misfits released John Huston's film, written by Arthur Miller for Monroe, opens days after the couple's divorce. It is Clark Gable's last film.
1962 Miller marries Inge Morath Arthur Miller marries the Magnum photographer Inge Morath, whom he met on the set of The Misfits.
1964 Miller's After the Fall Arthur Miller's play, widely read as a portrait of his marriage to Monroe, opens in New York.
1968 Miller's The Price Arthur Miller's play about two estranged brothers opens on Broadway.
1983 Miller directs Death of a Salesman in Beijing Arthur Miller directs his play with Chinese actors at the Beijing People's Art Theatre.
1987 Miller publishes Timebends Arthur Miller publishes his autobiography, Timebends: A Life.
1996 Miller's The Crucible filmed Nicholas Hytner's film of The Crucible, from Arthur Miller's own screenplay, stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.
1999 Miller's Death of a Salesman at fifty A 50th-anniversary Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play with Brian Dennehy wins the Tony Award.
2005 Arthur Miller dies in Roxbury, Connecticut Arthur Miller dies at his home in Connecticut on the 56th anniversary of the opening of Death of a Salesman.