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Jun 18, 2023 · The Magnificent Ambersons: rebirth for ruined Orson Welles masterpiece that rivalled Citizen Kane. The studio ‘butchered’ the legendary director’s 1942 film. Now an ambitious project is under...
Jul 10, 2022 · The Magnificent Ambersons, released 80 years today, is famously the film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane. It’s also regarded as one of the great travesties in film history.
11,551 ratings1,091 reviews. 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 ...
The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family.
The Magnificent Ambersons, American dramatic film, released in 1942, that was director Orson Welles ’s much-anticipated follow-up to his masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941). The film, which was based on the 1918 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel by Booth Tarkington, is as infamous for its production problems as it is famous for its artistic merit.
The Magnificent Ambersons. Summaries. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer.
Authors & Events. Add to Bookshelf. Buy. Look Inside. Read An Excerpt. The Magnificent Ambersons. By Booth Tarkington. Best Seller. Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Category: Classic Fiction | Historical Fiction. Paperback $18.00. Sep 14, 1998| ISBN 9780375752506. Buy. Ebook $3.99. Nov 01, 2000| ISBN 9780679642008. Buy. All Formats. +.
