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All My Sons: America's Greatest Playwright Almost Wasn't

From the moment it premiered in 1947, Arthur Miller's All My Sons was a huge success. It's a good thing, too, because Miller vowed that if the play flopped, he wouldn't write another one. This ultimatum came after his first commercial play, ironically titled The Man Who Had All the Luck, closed after only six performances on Broadway in 1944. "I was resigned to total failure," said Miller, "and decided to write a play with no lyricism at all, a play so strictly organized that it offered no escape. And I thought, 'If I can't make that happen, I'll just do something else.'" But after spending more than two years writing All My Sons, [...] read more »

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