![]() Cobb plays road salesman Willy Loman so well that the viewer can see him having an emotional breakdown as the play progresses to it's conclusion. Sixteen years later a now 55 year old Cobb reprises his Broadway stage role for the television cameras and was emotionally and dramatically perfect. Thirty-nine years later I purchased the DVD and marveled in seeing "Death of a Salesman" in color. Back then we only had a black and white TV. I saw the television movie which ran on CBS television when it was broadcast in 1966. The play ran for 742 performances from Februthru November 18, 1950. Cobb (then 38 years old) had performed this role on Broadway starring in the original cast. Cobb in mind to play salesman Willy Loman. It is almost as if he wrote it with Lee J. ![]() Clearly, "Death of a Salesman" is the best play that Arthur Miller has written.
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