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=== Marriages and family === [[File:Monroe Miller Wedding.jpg|thumb|Miller and [[Marilyn Monroe]] tie the knot in [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]], New York, June 1956]] In June 1956, Miller left his first wife, Mary Slattery, whom he had married in 1940, and wed film star [[Marilyn Monroe]].<ref name="Observer_obit"/> They met in 1951, had a brief affair, and remained in contact.<ref name="Times_obit" /><ref name="Observer_obit"/> Monroe had just turned 30 when they married; she never had a real family of her own and was eager to join the family of her new husband.<ref name=Meyers>Meyers, Jeffrey. ''The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.'' University of Illinois Press (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-252-03544-9}}</ref>{{rp|156}} Monroe began to reconsider her career and the fact that trying to manage it made her feel helpless. She admitted to Miller, "I hate [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]]. I don't want it any more. I want to live quietly in the country and just be there when you need me. I can't fight for myself any more."<ref name=Meyers/>{{rp|154}} Monroe [[Conversion to Judaism|converted to Judaism]] to "express her loyalty and get close to both Miller and his parents", writes biographer Jeffrey Meyers.<ref name=Meyers/>{{rp|156}} Soon after Monroe converted, [[Egypt]] banned all of her movies.<ref name=Meyers/>{{rp|157}} Away from Hollywood and the culture of celebrity, Monroe's life became more normal; she began cooking, keeping house, and giving Miller more attention and affection than he had been used to.<ref name=Meyers/>{{rp|157}} Later that year, Miller was subpoenaed by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]], and Monroe accompanied him.<ref name=Cakirtas>Çakırtaş, Önder. [http://www.ijla.net/Makaleler/1213426610_13-22%20%C3%96nder%20%C3%87ak%C4%B1rta%C5%9F%20(1)%20(2).pdf "Double Portrayed: Tituba, Racism and Politics"]. ''International Journal of Language Academy''. Volume 1/1 Winter 2013, pp. 13–22.</ref> In her personal notes, she wrote about her worries during this period: {{blockquote|I am so concerned about protecting Arthur. I love him—and he is the only person—human being I have ever known that I could love not only as a man to which I am attracted to practically out of my senses—but he is the only person—as another human being that I trust as much as myself...<ref>{{cite book | last = Monroe | first = Marilyn | title = Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters | location = New York | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | date = 2010 | pages = 89–101 | isbn = 9780374158354 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=K1KlDQEACAAJ}}</ref>}} During the filming of the 1961 film ''The Misfits'', which Miller wrote the script for, Miller and Monroe's marriage dissolved.<ref name=":0" /> Monroe obtained a "[[Mexican divorce]]" from Miller in January 1961.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spoto |first1=Donald |title=Marilyn Monroe: The Biography |date=2001 |publisher=Cooper Square Press |isbn=978-0-8154-1183-3 |pages=450–455}}</ref> In February 1962, Miller married photographer [[Inge Morath]], who had worked as a photographer documenting the production of ''The Misfits''. The first of their two children, [[Rebecca Miller|Rebecca]], was born September 15, 1962. Their son Daniel was born with [[Down syndrome]] in November 1966. Against his wife's wishes, Miller had him [[Institutionalisation|institutionalized]], first at a home for infants in New York City, then at the [[Southbury Training School]] in Connecticut. Though Morath visited Daniel often, Miller never visited him at the school and rarely spoke of him; Daniel left Southbury at the age of 17 and gradually went from living in a group home to living in an apartment with occasional visits by a social worker.<ref name="VanityFair">{{cite magazine|magazine=Vanity Fair |title=Arthur Miller's Missing Act|author=Andrews, Suzanna |date=September 2007|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/09/miller200709|access-date=August 17, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Joseph Epstein |title=Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBC6gg4ZhQ8C&q=joseph%20epstein%20arthur%20miller&pg=PT50 |publisher=HMH |access-date=March 29, 2020 |pages=35–37 |date=November 29, 2011|isbn=9780547577210 }}</ref> Miller and Inge remained together until her death in 2002. Miller's son-in-law, actor [[Daniel Day-Lewis]], is said to have visited Daniel frequently and to have persuaded Miller to meet with him. At one point, Miller answered a question about his son by stating, "Well, he knows I’m a person, and he knows my name, but he doesn’t understand what it means to be a son.” When Inge died, Miller stated that they had only had one child together; Daniel did not attend her funeral. When Miller died, Daniel was named as an heir along with his three other children.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Andrews|first=Suzanna|title=Arthur Miller's Missing Act|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/09/miller200709|access-date=June 3, 2021|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=August 13, 2007|language=en-US}}</ref>
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