Finishing the Picture

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Finishing the Picture is Arthur Miller's final play. It was produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in the autumn of 2004, just months before Miller's death on February 10, 2005.

Finishing the Picture, a drama with humor, is a poetic, thinly-veiled autobiographical examination of the time Miller and his then-wife Marilyn Monroe spent shooting The Misfits (1961). Miller and Monroe's marriage was deteriorating at the time of shoot -- the summer and fall of 1960 -- due to her rampant drug abuse, her open infidelity with actor Yves Montand, and her panoply of mental illnesses. A similar account may be found in Miller's autobiography, Timebends (1987), as well as in the 2001 PBS documentary, Making The Misfits. The Misfits (1961) was directed by John Huston, who was nominated as best director by the Director's Guild of America.

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