George is humiliated by the incident and angered by Eugene's attentions toward Isabel and his mother's obvious affection for Eugene. Eugene's "horseless carriage" has gotten stuck in the snow, and George jeers for them to "get a horse." The Amberson sleigh then overturns, and Eugene, after his vehicle is mobile again, gives everyone a ride back home. They pass Eugene, his aunt Fanny, Isabel, and Isabel's brother, Jack. The next day, George and Lucy take a sleigh ride. He instantly takes to Eugene's daughter Lucy. George dislikes Eugene, whom he sees as a social climber, and ridicules Eugene's investment in the automobile.
Eugene, now a widower who has just returned to town after 20 years, attends. In the early 20th century, Major Amberson gives a large party at the Amberson Mansion for George, who is home from college for the holidays. The townspeople long to see George get his "comeuppance." She instead marries Wilbur Minafer, a passionless man she does not love, and spoils their child, George.
As a young man, Eugene Morgan courts Isabel Amberson, but she rejects him after he publicly embarrasses her. The Ambersons are by far the wealthiest family in their Midwestern city in the last few decades of the 19th century. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and it was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1991. Composer Bernard Herrmann insisted his credit be removed when, like the film itself, his score was heavily edited by the studio.Įven in the released version, The Magnificent Ambersons is often regarded as among the greatest films of all time, a distinction it shares with Welles's first film, Citizen Kane. Although Welles's extensive notes for how he wished the film to be cut have survived, the excised footage was destroyed. More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending. Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film. The film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, with Welles providing the narration. 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 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles.
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