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Arthur Miller (play)
Stanley Roberts (writer)
Release Date:
9 May 1952 (Finland) more
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Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations more
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Arthur Miller Voted Best Playwright Of The Century
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 October 1998)
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A Greek tragedy is pretty heavy-going stuff from Arthur Miller... more (8 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Fredric March | ... | Willy Loman |
 | Mildred Dunnock | ... | Linda Loman |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Biff Loman |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Happy Loman |
| Howard Smith | ... | Charley |
| Royal Beal | ... | Ben |
 | Don Keefer | ... | Bernard |
| Jesse White | ... | Stanley |
| Claire Carleton | ... | Miss Francis |
| David Alpert | ... | Howard Wagner |
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115 min
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The original Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller opened at the Morosco Theater on February 10, 1949, ran for 742 performances and won the 1949 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play. Cameron Mitchell recreated his stage role in the movie version. more
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Ben: A salesman is somebody way up there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine... more
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Referenced in Facing the Past (2005) (V) more
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Arthur Miller justifiably received a lot of acclaim for his Broadway stage version of DEATH OF A SALESMAN and this film version starring FREDRIC MARCH as Willie Loman is a faithful transfer of that work.
March is outstanding in his portrayal of a bitterly confused man who can't fathom why his life went so wrong, and CAMERON MITCHELL and KEVIN McCARTHY do outstanding work as the sons who are disillusioned by their father's failure. But the most memorable performance, in my estimation, comes from MILDRED DUNNOCK, who would go on to play similarly bitter women in her future roles on screen. But here she is poignant in what has to be one of the best character roles she ever had.
Surprisingly, the film is little seen today, seldom revived and largely forgotten. BRIAN DENNEHY did have success in a recent Broadway version and DUSTIN Hoffman has performed the role on TV. But the Fredric March version deserves to be seen, however heavy-handed the material is.
It's an exhausting experience, a story of one man's failure in life's journey, but dramatically very effective and it still has a lot to say.