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# See Photos From the Day Arthur Miller Married Marilyn Monroe

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Monroe is all smiles after marrying Miller, 1956.

Monroe is all smiles after marrying Miller, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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## Eliza Berman


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Oct 16, 2015 12:30 AM UTC

Arthur Miller is best remembered as the Pulitzer Prize-winning scribe of dozens of plays, the holder of the pen that birthed _Death of a Salesman_’s tragic Willy Loman and _The Crucible_’s morally tormented John Proctor. But, even after the critical accolades he received and the dissertations he inspired, he’s also remembered for a more personal aspect of his biography: his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Miller met Monroe in 1951, while he was married to his first wife and she was in between her first and second marriages. After a brief affair, they kept up a correspondence throughout Monroe’s brief marriage to Joe DiMaggio and Miller’s separation from his wife. On June 29, 1956, the pair married at the Westchester County Court House in a civil ceremony with exactly two witnesses and zero photojournalists.

But shortly after the wedding—which was followed two days later by an intimate Jewish ceremony—LIFE’s Paul Schutzer photographed the couple as they drove with a friend to Connecticut, where Miller lived. Schutzer’s photographs capture a carefree affection that would soon give way to darker times, the happy beginning to a five-year marriage that would end just 19 months before Monroe’s death.

The union would come to be plagued by an assortment of strains, which perhaps began when Monroe discovered a notebook in which Miller had scribbled his misgivings about having married her. Tormented by repeated miscarriages and the many inner demons to which she would ultimately succumb, Monroe turned to barbiturates. And Miller turned to another woman, photographer Inge Morath, whom he met on the set of _The Misfits_—a film he had written to offer Monroe her first dramatic role—and whom he would marry in 1962, shortly after divorcing Monroe.


Miller, who remained mum on the subject of Monroe for many years, would later say that their differences, at least in the beginning, drew them closer. “The very inappropriateness of our being together was to me the sign that it was appropriate,” he said in a 1987 [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5ijFKk6fU), “that we were two parts, however remote, of this society, of this life.”

_Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter_ [_@lizabethronk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._

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Shortly after their marriage, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller ride in a Thunderbird convertible on their way to Connecticut, where Miller lived, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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Miller and Monroe ride in a Thunderbird with Monroe's close friend, photographer Milton Greene, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images


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Monroe is all smiles after marrying Miller, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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The trio stop for gas on their way to Connecticut, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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Monroe and Miller kiss as Greene gives them a moment of privacy, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images


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Monroe and Miller drink Coca-Cola, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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Monroe waves goodbye as she and Miller head to his home in Connecticut, 1956. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

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