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Not who you're looking for? Others named Death of a Salesman: 1949 play by Arthur Miller · 1966 British television drama film by Alan Cooke · 1985 American TV drama film by Volker Schlöndorff · 1966 American television drama film by Alex Segal

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Death of a Salesman is a 1951 American drama film adapted from the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. The film received many honors, including four Golden Globe Awards, the Volpi Cup and five Oscar nominations. Alex North, who wrote the music for the Broadway production, was one of the five Academy Award nominees for the film's musical score. Plot Willy Loman has led a life consisting of 60 years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he went wrong. Finally exhausted between the emotional rift between him and his son Biff, and the emotional toll from being burnt out with his job, Willy starts his car in the garage and takes his own life. An insurance policy is paid out to the rest of the Loman family, as Willy felt he was worth more dead than alive. Cast Fredric March as Willy Loman Mildred Dunnock as Linda Loman Kevin McCarthy as Biff Loman Cameron Mitchell as Happy Loman Howard Smith as Charley Royal Beal as Ben Don Keefer as Bernard Jesse White as Stanley Claire Carleton as Miss Francis David Alpert as Howard Wagner Career of a Salesman Just before the film was about to be released, Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Studios over the short that was to appear before Death of a Salesman. This short film, Career of a Salesman, showed what the producers believed was a more typical American salesman, and was an attempt to defuse possible accusations that Death of a Salesman was an anti-American film. Eventually, Columbia agreed to remove the 10-minute short from the film's theatrical run.

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Notable quotes

“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”
— After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (March 31, 1954)
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
— "The Year it Came Apart", New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 30, 1974 – January 6, 1975), p. 30
“I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.”
— As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (February 11, 2005)
“Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates — that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey — I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.”
— Willy
“Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem — vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!”
— John Proctor
“Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house — in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.”
— Lyman, Act 2

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Death of a Salesman: 1949 play by Arthur Miller · 1966 British television drama film by Alan Cooke · 1985 American TV drama film by Volker Schlöndorff · 1966 American television drama film by Alex Segal

Notable quotes

“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”
— After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (March 31, 1954)
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
— "The Year it Came Apart", New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 30, 1974 – January 6, 1975), p. 30
“I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.”
— As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (February 11, 2005)
“Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates — that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey — I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.”
— Willy
“Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem — vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!”
— John Proctor
“Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house — in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.”
— Lyman, Act 2

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Death of a Salesman is a 1951 American drama film adapted from the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. The film received many honors, including four Golden Globe Awards, the Volpi Cup and five Oscar nominations. Alex North, who wrote the music for the Broadway production, was one of the five Academy Award nominees for the film's musical score. Plot Willy Loman has led a life consisting of 60 years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he went wrong. Finally exhausted between the emotional rift between him and his son Biff, and the emotional toll from being burnt out with his job, Willy starts his car in the garage and takes his own life. An insurance policy is paid out to the rest of the Loman family, as Willy felt he was worth more dead than alive. Cast Fredric March as Willy Loman Mildred Dunnock as Linda Loman Kevin McCarthy as Biff Loman Cameron Mitchell as Happy Loman Howard Smith as Charley Royal Beal as Ben Don Keefer as Bernard Jesse White as Stanley Claire Carleton as Miss Francis David Alpert as Howard Wagner Career of a Salesman Just before the film was about to be released, Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Studios over the short that was to appear before Death of a Salesman. This short film, Career of a Salesman, showed what the producers believed was a more typical American salesman, and was an attempt to defuse possible accusations that Death of a Salesman was an anti-American film. Eventually, Columbia agreed to remove the 10-minute short from the film's theatrical run.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Death of a Salesman is a 1951 American drama film adapted from the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. The film received many honors, including four Golden Globe Awards, the Volpi Cup and five Oscar nominations. Alex North, who wrote the music for the Broadway production, was one of the five Academy Award nominees for the film's musical score.

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