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Film Forum Coronado: 'The Magnificent Ambersons'

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 6 PM

Coronado Public Library

Free

Film Forum Coronado
Coronado Public Library
640 Orange Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
(619) 522-7390

Free Film and Discussion
In the Winn Room
Adults

Wednesday, May 7 at 6 p.m.

"THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS" (1942. 89 min. PG-13) - Orson Welles’s compromised masterpiece, re-edited by a nervous studio, offers a wistful elegy for a bygone era. The film chronicles the decline of the Amberson clan with the coming Industrial Revolution leaving them on the brink of financial ruin and obsolescence. Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter and Tim.

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 boring Wilbur. Time passes, and Wilbur and Isabel's only son, George (Tim Holt), is loathed as a controlling figure in the town. When Wilbur dies, Eugene again proposes to Isabel, but George threatens the union. As George in turn courts the woman he wants to marry, a string of tragedies befalls the family.

Coronado Public Library

640 Orange Ave.

Coronado, California 92118

619-522-7390

eskelly@coronado.ca.us

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