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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 1925, it was adapted into the silent film Pampered Youth directed by David Smith.
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.
The Magnificent Ambersons, novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1918. The book, about life in a Midwestern American town, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. It was the second volume in the author’s trilogy Growth, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, later retitled.
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Jan 14, 2021 · Now, almost 80 years on, The Magnificent Ambersons is being restored to its full 132-minute glory. Over the past two years, filmmaker Brian Rose has been quietly reconstructing the film using surviving footage, frame enlargements, archival interviews and various other documents including Booth Tarkington’s source novel and Welles’ own script.
Booth Tarkington. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's ...
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The Magnificent Ambersons: Directed by Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons was an immediate popular and critical success. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the first of two for its author.
