Miller was neither an old man or an ugly old man when he married Marilyn. In fact, as someone who would see him on the streets of NYC, he was quite an attractive man. He wrote a play about Marilyn and damned if I can think of its title. Help me, someone!
Marilyn was a fine actress and comedian. I blame the truly ugly Lee Strasberg who told her that she was a genius and an intellectual - the latter clearly she was not - and because of that, she sought out brainy guys to bolster her idea as an “intellectual” woman. That led to the poor woman thinking that Carl Sandburg was a genius.
She was in reality, a very intelligent and savvy woman but fell for all the phonies (Elia Kazan, I mean you!) who were basically trying to get into her pants. I exclude Miller from this who at least married her and cherished her for a few years. He eventually could not put up with her drink and pill addiction or her reliance on the awful Strasberg family. (Paula, I mean you!)
This is a very complicated story of a woman who, for a few short years, was America’s greatest comic actress. I didn’t say that - David Mamet did.
I have already posted this once but I guess that you didn’t see it.
The play Miller wrote about Monroe was titled, “After the Fall.”
My male friends and I were pre-teens when we made that judgment.
He was 11 years older than Marilyn.
He may have been attractive to you and Marilyn, but that was definitely not the consensus in 1956, when, if my math is correct, you were just one year old.
Anyway, if you reread my comment, it was written to make people laugh, and it concluded with a healthy dose of self-parody.