DEATH OF A SALESMAN (TV)
Summary
A special broadcast of this drama by Arthur Miller, concerning the relationship between traveling salesman Willy Loman and his two grown sons, Biff and Happy, whose lives have failed to fulfill his expectations. Lee J. Cobb plays the beleaguered, peripatetic businessman, whose advancing age, job insecurity, and fears that he is "not well-liked" are causing him to experience increasingly frequent fugue states. Flashback sequences reveal the poignant grandiosity of Willy's dreams and the hidden sources of Biff's failure and disillusionment. The drama serves as both a moving character study and a savage indictment of the hypocritical bourgeois value system. Includes commercials.
The acquisition and cataloging of The Arthur Miller Collection was made possible by The Laura Pels Foundation.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: May 8, 1966 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:48:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T77:0232
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Arthur Miller Collection, The; Drama; Theater; Marriage; Sales personnel
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1966
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Xerox Corporation
CREDITS
- David Susskind … Producer
- Daniel Melnick … Producer
- Alex Segal … Director
- Arthur Miller … Writer
- Robert Drasnin … Music by
- Lee J. Cobb … Cast, Willy Loman
- Mildred Dunnock … Cast, Linda Loman
- George Segal … Cast, Biff Loman
- James Farentino … Cast, Happy Loman
- Albert Dekker … Cast, Ben Loman
- Edward Andrews … Cast, Charlie
- Gene Wilder … Cast, Bernard
- Marge Redmond … Cast, Woman in Hotel
- Bernie Kopell … Cast, Howard Wagner
- Joan Patrick … Cast, Miss Forsythe
- Karen Steele … Cast, Letta
- Stanley Adams … Cast, Stanley
- June Foray … Cast, Jenny