Death of a Salesman
- 1951
- 1h 55m
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7.2/10
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An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
- Nominated for 5 Oscars
- 7 wins & 11 nominations total
Beverly Aadland
- Girl
- (uncredited)
Jeanne Bates
- Mother
- (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
- Mother
- (uncredited)
Roger Broaddus
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
- Subway Guard
- (uncredited)
Patricia Edwards
- Letta
- (uncredited)
Elisabeth Fraser
- Miss Forsythe
- (uncredited)
Charles Morton
- Subway Passenger
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAccording to Arthur Miller, in a 2000 essay entitled, "Are You Now Or Were You Ever?" Columbia asked Miller to sign an anti-Communist declaration to ward off the threat of picket lines by the American Legion at theaters showing "Death of a Salesman". He refused. Instead, Columbia made another movie, a short film entitled "Life of a Salesman" to be shown with it. The short consisted of business professors from City College praising sales as a profession, and denouncing the character of Willy Loman. Miller wrote: "Never in show-business history has a studio spent so much good money to prove that its feature film was pointless."
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Schmaltzier than Hoffman, in an entertaining manner
This is the version people of my generation grew up on; it played on TV in the 50's, and being black and white non-widescreen and uncensorable, what we saw was what was filmed. Frederick March hammmed it up a bit, but in retrospect the play itself is hammmy (emotion-charged). It has been said Arthur Miller disliked the film, particularly the realistic representation of Willie's reveries and imaginings. Kevin McCarthy did a fine job as Biff. I loyally refused for years to watch Dustin Hoffman's version, but when I finally gave in I enjoyed his substantially different interpretation. But if he differed from March, then it follows March differs from him. In short, a whole other way of enjoying the greatest American soap opera ever penned.
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- Sep 11, 2000
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