As mentioned in the title of an Arthur Miller 1949 play, what was Willie Loman's occupation?
"self-perceived traits successfully as he grew older. Loman's world crumbles around him during the play. According to Associated Press correspondent Cynthia Lowry's review of the drama, ""we watched an aging, defeated traveling salesman move inexorably toward self-destruction, clinging desperately to fantasies"". The play begins with the 63-year-old Loman dealing with a recent pay cut after 34 years on the job at a time when he is having difficulty meeting his financial responsibilities. In the second act, he deals with being fired. The firing was at the hands of the son of the person who had hired him 36 years prior."
"Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He is best known for his performances in ""12 Angry Men"" (1957), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), and ""The Exorcist"" (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play ""Death of a Salesman"" under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb starred in the first four seasons of the Western series ""The Virginian"". He typically played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges and"
"and prices soared, his stepfather’s business collapsed and he committed suicide"". "" 'We’ve all known a Willy Loman in our life,' Freed said, referring to Arthur Miller's classic play, 'Death of a Salesman,' [emended] in which the protagonist Willy Loman commits suicide hoping that in death he may provide for his family. Freed's mother, who sold insurance 'in the back roads of Louisiana,' supported the family until she died of cancer at 42"". He and his wife Patricia Rae Freed, a former teacher who represents him, live in Los Angeles. After his visiting appointment in Leeds and York, they returned"
"Death of a Salesman (1951 film) Death of a Salesman is a 1951 film adapted from the 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 Academy Award 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. Willy Loman has led a life consisting of 60 years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins"
"because “One thing about the play that is very Chinese is the way Willy tries to make his sons successful."" The Chinese father always wants his sons to be ‘dragons.’ The original Broadway production was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and Walter Fried. The play opened at the Morosco Theatre on February 10, 1949, closing on November 18, 1950, after 742 performances. The play starred Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, Howard Smith as Charley and Cameron Mitchell as Happy. Albert Dekker and Gene Lockhart later played Willy Loman during the original Broadway"
"to charge again."" Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance came at a time when the Occupy Wall Street ongoings echoed the play while its actors could not afford the $120 ticket price. The March version of Loman presented him as a bit more of a lunatic than other versions. Miller noted that although he wrote the play in 1947 and 1948, the play grew out of his life experiences, that included his father losing everything in the 1929 stock market crash. Miller claims that the role was actually modeled on one of his uncles. Dustin Hoffman says that the play was the"
"and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff."" Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman ""has been obsessed with the play"" throughout his career: ""For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest."" For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it: Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, Lee J. Cobb, and remembers seeing his stage performance: ""I'll never forget that period in my life. It was so"
"by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Happy. The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for Best Author, the New York Drama Circle Critics' Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The play was performed 742 times. In 1949, Miller exchanged letters with Eugene O'Neill regarding Miller's production of ""All My Sons"". O'Neill had sent Miller a congratulatory telegram; in response, he wrote a letter that"
"is ""Mr. Jones"" (1993), in which Mr. Jones (Richard Gere) swings from a manic episode into a depressive phase and back again, spending time in a psychiatric hospital and displaying many of the features of the syndrome. In ""The Mosquito Coast"" (1986), Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) displays some features including recklessness, grandiosity, increased goal-directed activity and mood lability, as well as some paranoia. Psychiatrists have suggested that Willy Loman, the main character in Arthur Miller's classic play ""Death of a Salesman"", suffers from bipolar disorder, though that specific term for the condition did not exist when the play was written."
"Theatre, particularly for his role as Pockmark Liu in Lao She's masterpiece ""Teahouse"" and as Willy Loman in ""Death of a Salesman"" in 1983, directed by Arthur Miller (Ying also translated the script). Ying was born in Beijing into a Manchu family. He studied in a church school in Tianjin in his early years, and later graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University. He was forced into the provinces to perform manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. Ying is the author of a memoir, co-authored by Claire Conceison, ""Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China's Revolution"
"D.C., most notably as Willy Loman in ""Death of a Salesman"". Prosky often performed at Arena Stage with over 100 stage credits to his name at that theatre alone. He played Shelly Levene in the 1984 Chicago and Broadway production of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play ""Glengarry Glen Ross"". He was also a board member of the Cape May Stage in Cape May, New Jersey. Prosky donated his papers to George Mason University. In 1960, he married Ida Hove, and had three sons, Stefan, John and Andrew Prosky. Andrew and John Prosky are also actors. On December 8, 2008, Prosky"
"The Ride Down Mt. Morgan The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller. The play's central character is Lyman Felt, an insurance agent and bigamist who maintains families in New York City and Elmira in upstate New York. When he is hospitalized following a nearly fatal car crash on an icy mountain road, both wives—the prim and proper Theo, to whom he's been wed for more than thirty years, and the younger, more assertive Leah, whom he married nine years earlier—show up at his bedside. When confronted with his duplicity, Felt states that the two options in"
"early 1970s, Mitchell appeared as a team captain on the television comedy panel game show Jokers Wild, opposite Les Dawson. He was a subject of the television programme ""This Is Your Life"" in 1972 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"" at the National Theatre directed by Michael Rudman (1979, being originally cast in the role by Stephen Barry at the Playhouse in Perth, Australia); Harold Pinter's ""The Caretaker"" at the National Theatre; Pinter's ""The Homecoming"" at London's Comedy Theatre"
"sudden realization that he is over the hill and does so with a fantasy world in which he remains important. ""The Huffington Post""'s theater critic, Wilborn Hampton, describes the role as ""one of the most complicated characters in dramatic literature"", making it a draw for the great actors. The play is a statement on the idea that a man is valued by his position in life. Loman never matures enough to realize that being popular without any substance or skill is meaningless in the end and Miller uses Loman to make his point against the anti-intellectualists. In the end, Loman"
"connection with Lee Strasberg, as Lee's then daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Mirror. In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play ""Death of a Salesman"" He reprised his role in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor along with a Golden Globe. Hoffman first read the play at the age of 16, but today considers the story much like his own: ""It was a blueprint of my family. I was the loser, the flunky,"
"A Memory of Two Mondays A Memory of Two Mondays is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse during the Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United States. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a college education in the midst of people stumbling through the workday in a haze of hopelessness and despondency. Three of the characters in the story have"
"and Tennessee Williams. During his career at the Daily News, he was able to attend the 1949 debut of ""Death of a Salesman"" starring Lee J. Cobb in the title role of Willy Loman, as well as the 50th-anniversary production of the play with Brian Dennehy in the lead. One of the founders of the Drama Desk Awards, Watt served on the nominating committee for both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Awards. Watt died at age 95 on September 29, 2009, in Southampton, New York because of pneumonia. At the time of his death, he resided in"
"suburban Brooklyn, New York salesman whose less than spectacular career is on the decline. He has lost the youthful verve of his past and his camaraderie has faded away. His business knowledge is still at its peak, but without his youth and heartiness, he is no longer able to leverage his personality to get by. Time has caught up with him. The play presents Loman's struggle ""to maintain a foothold in the upward-striving American middle class"" while combating his own self-doubt that plagues him in reminders from the past that his life rests on unsolid ground. According to Charles Isherwood,"
"wrote the lyrics along with Canadian composer Ernest Seitz. (The song was subsequently made popular by Les Paul and Mary Ford in the 1950s.) He wrote and directed the Broadway musical revue ""Bunk of 1926"". He sang in ""Die Fledermaus"" for the San Francisco Opera Association. On Broadway, Lockhart originated the role of Uncle Sid in Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, ""Ah, Wilderness!"" (1933), and took over from Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, during the original run of ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949). However, Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922"
"his standards. The models of business success provided in the play all argue against Willy's ""personality theory."" One is Charley, Willy's neighbor and apparently only friend. Charley has no time for Willy's theories of business, but he provides for his family and is in a position to offer Willy a do-nothing job to keep him bringing home a salary. (Bloom 51) ""Death of a Salesman"" first opened on February 10, 1949, to great success. Drama critic John Gassner wrote that “the ecstatic reception accorded ""Death of Salesman"" has been reverberating for some time wherever there is an ear for theatre,"
"advice of a friend, he decided to pursue acting as a career instead. He made his professional acting debut with a Cincinnati stock company in 1927. Within a few months, Dekker was featured in the Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's play ""Marco Millions"". After a decade of theatrical appearances, Dekker transferred to Hollywood in 1937 and made his first film, 1937's ""The Great Garrick"". He spent most of the rest of his acting career in the cinema but also returned to the stage from time to time. He replaced Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in the original production of"
"Linda Loman from the original 1949 stage production. ""Playbill"" markets this version of the play as an ""abbreviated"" one. Although the performance is abridged, it was adapted for television by Miller himself, meaning that not much substance was lost in the changes. The production was filmed after several weeks of rehearsals. It was a 1966 CBS television adaptation, which included Gene Wilder, James Farentino, Bernie Kopell and George Segal. Cobb was nominated for an Emmy Award for the performance. Mildred Dunnock, who had co-starred in both the original stage version and the 1951 film version, again repeated her role as"
"Harry Loman Harry Loman was a British stage performer, comic, and afterwards a stage door keeper. Loman was discovered by Fred Karno and joined his troupe, appearing alongside Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. He then became the straight man in a double act, Lowe and Loman, which lasted for 25 years. After a period of unemployment, he took up the position of stage doorman at the Criterion Theatre in London, remaining there for over 18 years. He appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 14 April 1973, at age 92, having worked in the"
"ethnic humor was sanitized. It was adapted as a stage musical, ""Wish You Were Here"", in 1952. Kober died of cancer in New York on June 12, 1975 at the age of 74. He was portrayed by David Paymer in the 1999 film, ""Dash and Lilly"". Arthur Kober Arthur Kober (August 25, 1900 – June 12, 1975) was an American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter. He was married to the dramatist Lillian Hellman. Kober was born into a Jewish family in Brody, Galicia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of western Ukraine). His family emigrated to"
"marketing in London between 1967 and 1995. Upon his retirement in 1995, he returned to acting and has also dealt in antiques. He has had successful runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End, as the valet 'Lane', in Oscar Wilde's famous comedy ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" in 1999 and at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre as Lord Loam in J. M. Barrie's ""The Admirable Crichton"" and as Arthur Winslow, in Terence Rattigan's ""The Winslow Boy"" in 2001. David Macmillan David Graeme Salveson Macmillan (born Edinburgh, Scotland 12 September 1935) was a Scottish actor and advertising agent."
"in several countries and released in direct competition with Cecil B. DeMille's religious spectacular ""The Ten Commandments"". Wright Lorimer Wright Lorimer (March 10, 1874 - December 22, 1911) was the stage name of Walter Myron Smith, an American stage actor and playwright who was also known as Walter M. S. Lowell. He was author of a famous religious play ""The Shepherd King"" (1904) and starred in the Broadway production playing David. The play was co-written with Arnold Reeves. Lorimer committed suicide in 1911 despondent over a contract and proceeds of ""The Shepherd King"" with producer William A. Brady. In 1923"
"William Conselman William Marien Conselman (July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1940) was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips under his Bill Conselman byline and sometimes under the pseudonym Frank Smiley. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Conselman arrived on the West Coast in 1920 and joined the staff of the ""Los Angeles Times"" as the assistant city editor. His play ""And Then What"", staged by the San Diego Players, opened November 6, 1923 at Balboa Park's Yorick Theater. Between 1921 and 1940, he was a screenwriter on 57 films. By 1936, he had an annual income of"
"Frank Maxwell Frank Maxwell (November 17, 1916 – August 4, 2004) was an American actor who served as president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists from 1984 to 1989. A native of The Bronx borough of New York City, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, he appeared in 151 films or television programs. Maxwell began his acting career on the Broadway stage, appearing in such notable plays as ""Death of a Salesman"" (playing the role of Willy Loman's son, ""Happy""), ""South Pacific"" (playing ""Luther Billis,"" a role that went to Ray Walston in the film"
"Billy Liar Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs. The semi-comical story is about William Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a lowly clerk for an undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer. In 1960, the novel's author, Keith Waterhouse, co-wrote a three-act"
"""Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery"", edited by B. A. Botkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945). John A. Lomax served as president of the Texas Folklore Society for the years 1940–41, and 1941–42. In 1947 his autobiography ""Adventures of a Ballad Hunter"" (New York: Macmillan) was published and was awarded the Carr P. Collins prize as the best book of the year by the Texas Institute of Letters. The book was immediately optioned to be made into a Hollywood movie starring Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Lead Belly, but the project was never"
"in the country to have five theaters so honored. The Goodman Theatre had existed for a number of years with a reputation as a home for revivals, but the arrival of artistic director William Woodman and his assistant Gregory Mosher changed its profile. When Mosher took over as artistic director he enhanced the Goodman's reputation largely due to the work of David Mamet whose play ""Sexual Perversity in Chicago"" had been Mamet's first success at the Organic Theater Company in 1974. Mosher later produced and directed ""American Buffalo"" and ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" at the Goodman. The Goodman Theatre also was"
"opened. His first hit was ""Deep Are the Roots"" (1945), followed by Hellman's ""Another Part of the Forest"" (1946). ""Command Decision"" (1947) written by William Wister Haines, followed, with Paul Kelly sharing the Best Actor Tony Award that year for his performance and James Whitmore earning the Tony for ""Best Performance by a Newcomer"". Bloomgarden had a major string of success that culminated with the February 1949 opening of Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"", which earned a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The winning streak ended with Lillian Hellman's works ""Montserrat"" (1949) and ""The Autumn"
"was a founding member of The Actors Studio. McCarthy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a character actor, in both film and television. His breakthrough role came with ""Death of a Salesman"" (1951), in which he portrayed Biff Loman to Fredric March's Willy Loman. He had first performed the role in the London theatrical debut and was the only member of that ensemble to be cast in László Benedek's film adaptation. He received good notices for his onscreen work, receiving the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award"