The Making of
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

A special program from A&E that looks behind-the-scenes at the upcoming original movie "The Magnificent Ambersons." Based on Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and using Orson Welles' famed 1942 screenplay, the film stars Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, William Hootkins and James Cromwell, all of whom are interviewed about their characters and the Dublin based production along with director Alfonso Arau. Bruce's segment follows:

Narrator:		The man she should have married is Eugene Morgan, played by Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood:		I come into this as a kid, fall in love with Isabel and make a fool of myself one night, and it allows her to consider other suitors.....
Narrator:		When Eugene re-enters Isabel's life, he has a small fortune of his own, thanks to his work on the invention of the automobile, and he soon discovers that even after the death of Isabel's husband, he has a brand new adversary, Georgie Amberson Minafer.
Bruce Greenwood:		Her son is a product of that rigid, old money upbringing, where he believes he's entitled. And anybody who doesn't share his pedigree is thoroughly unentitled. And the idea that his mother - even after his father's death - is attracted to a commoner, he sees it as an insult that I'm payiing any attention to her - however innocent - at all...

with Isabel	with his daughter Lucy	with Col. Amberson	with Uncle George
Some close-ups
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	These two photos are from related ads for the movie. In one TV spot (pictured on the left) Bruce has this to say [about Orson Welles]: Citizen Cane made him. The Magnificent Ambersons finished him.

listening to Arau

SOUND WAV FROM THE INTERVIEW Bruce's comment 40 secs

watching Lucy

The Magnificent Ambersons

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