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Drama: The Life and Times of Arthur Miller

Ed Harris

Geoffrey Arend

Devon Sorvari

Alexis Jacknow

Raphael Sbarge

Heidi Dippold

Hector Elizondo

Andre Sogliuzzo

Kate McAll

Jonathan Holloway

Drama on 4: The Life and Times of Arthur Miller: Episode 2: The Lure

The Life and Times of Arthur Miller

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Episode 2: The Lure

The Lure

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After the success of Death of a Salesman, Hollywood beckons to Arthur.

After the success of Death of a Salesman, Hollywood beckons to Arthur, where a chance meeting with a young actress called Marilyn Monroe changes everything. By Jonathan Holloway.

2. The Lure

The second of four plays marking the centenary of the great American playwright, Arthur Miller.

By the time he was 35, Arthur Miller had a very eclectic CV. He was the son of an illiterate Jewish immigrant, whose once flourishing coat business had failed during the Depression. He'd worked nights in an auto-parts warehouse, been a dock-yard worker, a jobbing writer for Orson Welles, a prize-winning student playwright, and a writer of radio drama for Roosevelt's Federal Theatre Project. He was a communist activist and a highly skilled carpenter. In 1950 Death of A Salesman, directed by his good friend Elia Kazan, became a major Broadway hit. By that time Miller was the father of two children and had been married to his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery, for ten years. Now Hollywood beckoned, where a chance meeting with Marilyn Monroe would change everything. Written by Jonathan Holloway.

Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg
Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf
Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson

A BBC/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, directed by Kate McAll


LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. They have been collaborating with the BBC for nearly thirty years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach.

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