Fame, Fallouts and Fortitude: Miller’s Monroe Recordings Reveal a Turbulent Love and a Storied Career
Unearthed recordings spanning nearly 30 years reveal Arthur Miller’s candid thoughts on his marriage to Marilyn Monroe—her desire for a stable partner, her drug struggles and miscarriages, and their eventual estrangement during The Misfits—set against Miller’s rise, fame, self-doubt and political fears under McCarthyism. He discusses how fame influenced his work and why he wrote The Crucible, and the tapes, transcribed for Cambridge University Press as The Arthur Miller Tapes: A Life in His Own Words, also touch on his upbringing, his Jewish identity, and his long marriage to Inge Morath.