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	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
		This tale is set against the social decline, ruin and fall of the aristocratic Amberson family at the turn of the century with the coming of the industrial age and the rise of the automobile (and the prosperous Morgan family).
		The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873.
		A neighbor of the Ambersons, an underwear-dressed Mrs.
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	The Magnificent Ambersons
		The film focuses on the decline of the Indianapolis Ambersons, a once rich family whose era is in the midst of being ushered out by technology and the turn of the 20th century.
		Ambersons, only his second film, is often seen as the axis on which much of the Welles legacy turns.
		The Magnificent Ambersons stinks of heart, of Welles' desire to advance film as a medium and to help raise the standards by which movies were regarded.
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	The Magnificent Ambersons deconstructed
		Ambersons is a film that filmmakers and scholars alike remember and feel sorrow for its brilliance, beauty, and tragedy.
		The Amberson mansion is perhaps the most beautiful piece of work ever constructed for the cinema, and not surprisingly it is one of the most complex and expensive sets ever built on a Hollywood sound stage.
		Not only are the Ambersons and the Morgans leaving the frame, they are leaving an era, and it is also appropriate that they should have an automobile as their mode of transportation because the era they are about to enter is one dominated by automobiles.
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	The Magnificent Ambersons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington.
		It tells the story of a man who wants to marry a wealthy girl, but she rejects him for another man. When they are older, and both free to marry, her son works to keep them apart.
		The Magnificent Ambersons was remade for television in 2002, starring Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Dina Merrill and James Cromwell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Magnificent_Ambersons (243 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons
		Ambersons is the story of an old-money fin-de-siecle family in Middle America, and their Bataan death march into obsolescence.
		Ambersons is not a romantic paean, or a homily to humility - it is a parable about the side of progress which damns the progressor and makes his world unfamiliar and cold.
		Ambersons may well be the best-acted film in history, with almost every featured player turning in the performance of their careers.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/ambersons.html (2056 words)

	Review: The Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Magnificent Ambersons was Welles' second feature for RKO, and, as such, was placed in the untenable position of having to live up to Citizen Kane.
		The story of The Magnificent Ambersons may not be extraordinary, but the manner in which Welles tells it is. The director's hallmark exquisite craftsmanship is evident in every frame of his work which remains in the film.
		The Amberson mansion set, in which a majority of the film was made, was one of the most expensive and elaborate sets ever constructed in Hollywood.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/magnificent_ambersons.html (2150 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons
		In any event, The Magnificent Ambersons, as Kane before it to some extent, failed to find an audience, was a big bomb, and spelled the end of Orson's career as big time studio director that could do whatever he wanted with as much money as he wanted.
		Welles chooses the character of George, the only son of Wilbur and Isabel (she is the Amberson) to represent the ideal that nothing is forever and that the only thing in life that is inevitable is change.
		The splendor of the The Magnificent Ambersons is only partly diminished by the butchery that the bean counters did on it and even sixty years later you'll marvel at what how much truth Welles was able to lay bare in what remained.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Magnificent_Ambersons.html (1972 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled young heir to the Amberson fortune, but America is now entering the automobile age and the conservative Ambersons are ill equiped to deal with the rapid changes.
		The aristocracy is personified by the Amberson family, wealthy and prominent, and particularly by George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled grandson of the family's founder.
		This magnificent, humorous and fanciful book -- a precurser to Gatsby -- is timeless in its central meaning: parents spoil their children and children eventually must learn to unspoil themselves.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1556852584 (1205 words)

	village voice > film > The Magnificent Ambersons by J. Hoberman
		The Magnificent Ambersons, however different in tone and subject from Citizen Kane, gave every indication of being a comparable precocious masterpiece.
		Welles had adapted The Magnificent Ambersons as a radio play two years before (assigning himself the role of Georgie), and not even Kane made more effective use of dramatic sound.
		The Magnificent Ambersons is the lone Welles feature in which the maestro does not grace the screen.
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	Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place.
		One of Miss Amberson's brothers was among the serenaders, and, when the party had dispersed, remained propped against the front door in a state of helpless liveliness; the Major going down in a dressing-gown and slippers to bring him in, and scolding mildly, while imperfectly concealing strong impulses to laughter.
		At sight of them the grandeur of the Amberson family was instantly conspicuous as a permanent thing: it was impossible to doubt that the Ambersons were entrenched, in their nobility and riches, behind polished and glittering barriers which were as solid as they were brilliant, and would last.
	arthursclassicnovels.com /arthurs/tarkington/ambers10.html (18348 words)

	DEEP FOCUS: The Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They discuss the rise of the city, the smoke and dust, the decline of the Amberson fortunes, Jack's headlight investment in which Fanny is doomed to lose her money, and their dangerous new interest in the machine age, an interest which itself is to destroy them far more than their former ignorance.
		When he hears the cause of death he learns by degrees that a whole city has been destroyed; the theme is based on the "for want of a nail" premise.
		The duologue comically underscores the tragedy of the Ambersons and the loss of the old city.
	alumni.imsa.edu /~mitch/titles/ambersonscuts.html (1107 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Magnificent Ambersons follows the fates of the wealthy Amberson family, the people who virtually own the town in which their estate serves as something of a centerpiece.
		Although on the surface Ambersons seems like a very simple story, it really has an amazing emotional depth, not only demonstrating the proverb the “pride goeth before the fall,” but that those who are longing for the downfall of their betters will not necessarily be happy with the result.
		Jennifer Tilly, as the Ambersons’ spinster Aunt Fanny, turns in a performance that is an absolute revelation: the penultimate scene in which she confesses the loss of all her wealth was perfectly eye-opening.
	www.classicsondvd.com /amber2.htm (644 words)

	Medialunchbox - DVD : The Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alfonso Arau's handsome The Magnificent Ambersons, based on Orson Welles's original screenplay, is a brave attempt to restore the dramatic scenes lost when RKO radically recut Welles's magnificent 1941 masterpiece, but it's less a remake than a new take on the material.
		Bruce Greenwood makes a gracious and sincere Eugene Morgan, the inventor who woos heiress Isabel Amberson (a vibrant Madeleine Stowe) and finds his rival is her spoiled, arrogant son, George (played with sneering, bug-eyed intensity by Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
		Let's face it; Orson Welles's movie of The Magnificent Ambersons is a magnificent mess through no fault of its highly regarded director.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00005UW73 (530 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Magnificent Ambersons > Printer Friendly
		In the case of The Magnificent Ambersons, the latter case holds true: even though none of the component pieces of the film is absolutely terrible, the combined effect of many not-quite-right elements results in a movie that just doesn't work.
		The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the story of the Amberson family, a wealthy family in the midwestern United States at the turn of the century.
		One key failure of The Magnificent Ambersons is that one of its important characters is thoroughly unlikable.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=4719 (874 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics) (Booth Tarkington)
		So the Ambersons discovered that their investments had been exhausted as the industrial trends slowly but certainly drove them out of the city.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.
		From what I'd read about it "The Magnificent Ambersons" is all about how the automobile spoils the idyllic 19th century American way of life, but that's not how it came across to me at all.
		The main story is about George Amberson Minafer, the only grandchild, who is spoiled as a child and grows up arrogant with the assumption that he is from an upper class family and will never have to work.
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	Tarkington, Booth. 1918. The Magnificent Ambersons
		He knew that he had been true at last to his true love, and that through him she had brought her boy under shelter again.
		Tarkington’s telling social commentary charts the rise and fall of three generations of the successful and socially connected Amberson family in the face of a changing America.
		The spinning wheels of industry and commerce quickly overtake the old world and change the definition of ambition, success and loyalty almost overnight—and irreversibly change the definition of the Amberson family as well.
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	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
		In Indianapolis, the Amberson's are the most wealthy, revered and envied family in the entire county.
		As the destiny, and past, of the Amberson family develops, the personal interactions are entirely credible; the cast truly breathes life into the roles.
		Welles captures the Ambersons descent from previously lofty heights, the clash of values that dooms them, wonderfully; this is a dynasty built in the past and wrecked in the present.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Magnificent_Amb.html (913 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons VHS VIDEO > Compare Prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The story is set during the late 19th century and follows the rise and fall of the wealthy Amberson family of Indianapolis, Indiana.
		Central to the drama is George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who is snobbishly to the manor born, and whose petty jealousies and truculent pride compel him to prevent a wealthy inventor (Joseph Cotten) from marrying his widowed mother (Dolores Costello).
		This in part is the cause of the Ambersons' downfall, and ultimately leads to George's humbling "comeuppance" at the film's dramatic conclusion.
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	Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There are few cinematic parallels to her raw emotion, first in pallid substitute scenes shot by Mercury Theater business manager Jack Moss, and then, with the insertion of Welles' powerful footage, the contrasting shadows deepen with Fanny's hysteria and the camera pulls away in a startling shot through the swinging kitchen door.
		I was fortunate to see The Magnificent Ambersons as it was meant to be shown, during the 4th annual Doubletake Documentary Film Festival, where it was programmed by Kent Jones of the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of a "Fast Forward--2001" series.
		That The Magnificent Ambersons turned out to be both George Amberson Minifer's and George Orson Welles' was an irony not lost on the latter.
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	movies depicting Fauntleroy suits: the Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It spans the period between 1873 and 1912 and centers on an aristocratic Indianapolis family that is unable to adapt to the societal changes brought about by the invention of the automobile.
		The story of The Magnificent Ambersons is one of decline and darkness and sadness, a family unwilling to change with the times.
		At the age of nine, George Amberson Minafer, the Major's one grandchild, was a princely terror, dreaded not only in Amberson Addition but in many other quarters through which he galloped on his white pony.
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	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Young George Amberson (Holt), the spoiled, insufferable scion of the wealthy Amberson family, is first seen, to the consternation of his neighbors, whipping his buggy horse through the streets of Indianapolis.
		Many of the ideas initally used in CITIZEN KANE are refined in AMBERSONS, showing in split-second frames his people reflected in mirrors, highly glossed furniture, sometimes in a glare of light, most in half-shadow, as if the flness of time were shutting out the light of the living.
		The look of AMBERSONS was modeled on the low-key lighting used by photographers at the turn-of-the-century, and Cortez's deep-focus lensing is arresting, dwelling upon scenes only Welles could have framed--notably, ten-minute soliloquies saved from tedium by the unique framing.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=5807 (515 words)

	An Abandoned Mine: Notes on Orson Welles' Radio Work
		The Magnificent Ambersons may not be the title that most people first think of in relation to Welles, but it is for many of devotees his finest and richest work – and certainly his most moving.
		In particular, the insular, pampered Amberson family is changed by the arrival of a lower-class stranger, Eugene Morgan, who brings with him a strong sign of the industrial and urban revolution of the twentieth century – the steam engine driven motor car.
		There is the unrequited, lost love between the mother of the Amberson clan, Isabel, and this cocky inventor Eugene; and then there's the attraction between Isabel's son, the spoilt-rotten George, and Eugene's young and charming daughter, Lucy.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/18/welles_radio.html (4828 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: The Magnificent Ambersons
		The story begins with scenes recalling the days when the Ambersons were the most important family in a bustling Midwestern city.
		Time passes, and the wealth of the Ambersons seems to be intact, and a son is born to Isabel.
		George on the death of the head of the family finally learns that the Ambersons are penniless and in contrition goes to work at whatever is available to him.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=3055 (411 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Narrator: The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873.
		No one will ever know what it would have been like if Orson Welles' original version had been allowed to stand as it was, but what is left is still extremely good despite the missing portions.
		The snobbishness of the Ambersons, and its effects on their lives and others' lives, is illustrated alongside the ways that increasing industrialization is changing everyone's lives.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0035015 (543 words)

	Magnificent Ambersons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From there he drifted to the old "Amberson Block," but this was fallen into a back-water; business had stagnated here.
		To spare himself nothing, he went out National Avenue and saw the piles of slush-covered wreckage where the Mansion and his mother's house had been, and where the Major's ill-fated five "new" houses had stood; for these were down, too, to make room for the great tenement already shaped in unending lines of foundation.
		But he had reckoned without the city council of the new order, and by an unpleasant coincidence, while the thought was still in his mind, his eye fell upon a metal oblong sign upon the lamppost at the corner.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/tarkingtetext058ambr10/258.html (353 words)

	The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
		George Amberson and Fanny were both "wiped out to a miracle of precision," as Amberson said.
		Eugene had been in New York, on business; Amberson easily persuaded him to this outing; and they made a cheerful party of it, with the new graduate of course the hero and centre of it all.
		At least half of it is a combination of youth, good looks, and college; and even the noblest Ambersons get over their nobility and come to be people in time.
	classic-novels.com /author/booth_tarkington/magnificent_ambersons/magnificentambersons023.shtml (1440 words)

	Annoying 'Ambersons'
		George Amberson Minafer, the insufferable young snob at the heart of "The Magnificent Ambersons," is all of that and more.
		But even in truncated form, Welles' "Magnificent Ambersons" is now considered by many critics to be an American movie classic.
		As a result, this heavy-handed, cinematic fruitcake rendition of "The Magnificent Ambersons" is anything but magnificent.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/tvandradio/mag11_20020111.htm (543 words)

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