Arthur Miller
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Early Life
Arthur aster miller was born in 1915 to, Jewish-American immigrant parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller, in Manhattan, New York City.
In 1928, the family had moved to Brooklyn, after their womens clothes/coat-manufacturing business manufacturing began to fail
Witnessing the societal decay of the Depression and his fathers desperation due to business failures had an enormous effect on Miller.
Due to the Great depression Arthur miler was unable to afford a college education after graduating from high school in 1932.
He then began working a number of jobs and in 1934 he enrolled in the University of Michigan and spent much of the next four years learning to write and working on a number of well-received plays. In which he graduated in English, in 1938.
Marilyn Monroe
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe first met in 1951, in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York.
Due to the affair in June of 1956 Miller divorced Mary Slattery and marries Marilyn Monroe
Miller being the famous character he was expected, during that era, to have a well behaved and sophisticated women as did all the famous celebrity men
Marilyn Monroe seemed almost ludicrously provocative during that era. Very loud and outspoken. Unafraid to express her self in any and everyway she desire.
To everyone Arthur miller and Marilyn Monroe were an extremely strangest couple, the worlds most glamorous screen icons with one of America’s foremost left wing thinkers; the affair seemed almost inappropriate and crazy
Marilyn Monroe though appearing to be sensuous and life loving in the midst of it all there was sadness and darkness
Marilyn had soon become the biggest female star in the world. Miller had stopped writing for a while to take care of Marilyn and her emotional need, but he became increasingly uncomfortable with