The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 21st, 2000
Restoring `Ambersons' magnificence
By ROBERT W. WELKOS
Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, March 21, 2000
Hollywood -- It has been called one of Hollywood's great tragedies, a testament to the studio system's disdain for true cinematic artistry.
Fresh on the heels of his 1941 masterpiece "Citizen Kane," young Kenosha-born director Orson Welles set to work on his next project, "The Magnificent Ambersons," an RKO Pictures turn-of-the-century drama filmed in black-and-white about a prosperous Midwestern family whose fortunes decline with the arrival of the automobile and changing economic times.
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