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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 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 .
A classic drama romance film directed by Orson Welles, based on Booth Tarkington's novel. It tells the story of a spoiled young heir who comes between his mother and the man she loves, and the decline of their aristocratic family.
- (27K)
- Drama, Romance
- Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
- 1942-07-10
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 magnificence.
- (11.6K)
- Paperback
Orson Welles' acclaimed drama follows two generations in a well-to-do Indianapolis family. Isabel Amberson receives a proposal from dashing Eugene (Joseph Cotten), but opts instead to marry...
- (45)
- Joseph Cotten
- Orson Welles
- Drama
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.
Orson Welles's second film, based on a Booth Tarkington novel, depicts the decline of a wealthy family in turn-of-the-century Indianapolis. The Criterion edition features a new 4K restoration, commentaries, interviews, essays, and more.
