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Orson Welles:
Do you know Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons?" Tarkington was a family friend. The character of Eugene, the inventor, is based on my father who died when I was fifteen. My mother when I was nine. "Ambersons" is about how everything gets taken away from you
Do you know Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons?" Tarkington was a family friend. The character of Eugene, the inventor, is based on my father who died when I was fifteen. My mother when I was nine. "Ambersons" is about how everything gets taken away from you
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Do you know Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons
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Tarkington was a family friend
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The character of Eugene the inventor is based on my father
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who died when I was 15
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My mother when I was nine
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Ambersons is about how everything gets taken away from you
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Movie Summary
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
