The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkingtonliterary work· published 1918
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Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. 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. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.
Adaptations (2)
The Magnificent Ambersons has been adapted 2 times, across film and television film, from 1942 to 2002.
The Magnificent Ambersons1942 · film · 88 min · dir. Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise · IMDb ↗The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
The Magnificent Ambersons2002 · television film · 150 min · dir. Alfonso Arau · IMDb ↗IMDb5.9The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...
