Documenting The Offstage Life Of Playwright Arthur Miller (AKA Dad)
In a new film, Rebecca Miller paints an intimate portrait of her father, the towering icon of American theater and one-time celebrity, out of decades' worth of home interviews.
Arthur Miller is a giant of the American theater. He's renowned for classics like Death Of A Salesman and The Crucible, which premiered in the '40s and '50s yet continue to be read in school and performed to this day.
Miller lived a long time — he died in 2005 at the age of 89 — so it might be easy to forget that for much of his adult life he wasn't just accomplished. He was also a major celebrity: He made headlines with his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and for his testimony before Congress during the McCarthy era.
A new documentary, reminds us of that history. But it also digs
