ARTHUR MILLER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: ESTELLE PARSONS - HFSID 254140

ARTHUR MILLER and ESTELLE PARSONS
Still from the televised version of Miller's autobiographical play, A Memory of Two Mondays.
Photograph signed: "Arthur Miller" and "Estelle Parsons". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9x6½ (one surface). Publicity photograph by Inge Morah (imprinted at lower margin). Captioned at lower margin: "Arthur Miller reminisces about his own experiences in an auto parts warehouse during the 1930s with Estelle Parsons, who appears as Agnes in Miller's autobiographical play, 'A Memory of Two Mondays.' Setting is a warehouse on New York's Lower East Side." Pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso: "Estelle Parsons/12-22-77, at/'Miss Mergarede's (sic) Way'/Ambassador Theatre". Parsons starred as Agnes in the TV version of Miller's play, A Memory of Two Mondays, which first aired on April 3, 1974. The one-act play had originally run on Broadway with A View from the Bridge in 1955, and it would be revived (in a double bill with 27 Wagons Full of Cotton) in 1976. Parsons starred in her Tony Award-nominated role as the title character in Miss Margarida's Way on Broadway from September 27, 1977-January 1, 1978. American playwright ARTHUR MILLER (1915-2005) raised America's social consciousness with such plays as The Crucible (1953), based on the Salem, Massachusetts witchcraft trials, and Death of a Salesman, the story of a man destroyed by society's false values, for which he won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Miller, who was the second husband of Marilyn Monroe, also wrote the screenplay for the 1961 film, The Misfits, the last full-length film in which Monroe appeared. A character actress of stage, film and television who often portrayed demented women, ESTELLE PARSONS (born in 1927) won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Rachel, Rachel (1968). She also played the screechy mother on the TV sitcom, Rosanne (1988-1997). Parsons has been nominated for Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968), And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little (1971) and Miss Margarida's Way (1978), and she received a Best Featured Actress Tony nomination for Mornings at Seven (2002). Her credits as a staff writer and feature producer include The Tonight Show, and Parsons, who had originally studied law, was the first TV network political news reporter (The Today Show). Lightly creased at blank margins and corners, staple holes at upper left blank margin. Minor surface creases (most not evident head on). Overall, fine condition.