Happy Birthday: Arthur Miller (1915–2005)

Born: October 17, 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died: February 10, 2005 (age 89) in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA

Married to: Inge Morath (17 February 1962 – 30 January 2002) (her death) (2 children)
Marilyn Monroe (29 June 1956 – 20 January 1961) (divorced)
Mary Grace Slattery (5 August 1940 – 11 June 1956) (divorced) (2 children)

[on Marilyn Monroe] If she was simple, it would have been easy to help her. She could have made it with a little luck.

[on approaches to acting] ‘The Method’ is in the air. The actor is defending himself from the Philistine, vulgar public. I had a girl in ‘After the Fall’ I couldn’t hear. I kept on saying, ‘I can’t hear you’. She finally got furious and said to me, in effect, that she was acting the truth, and that she was not going to prostitute herself to the audience. That was the living end.

[on working in radio with Orson Welles]: I was amazed at Welles’s genius with the microphone; he seemed to climb into it, his word-carving voice winding into one’s brain. No actor had such intimacy and sheer presence in a loudspeaker.