The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles Campbell Playhouse

Air Date: October 29, 1939, The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.

The story follows the decline of the once-powerful Amberson family in a Midwestern town as America transitions from the genteel Victorian era into the industrial age. At the center is George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled and arrogant heir who disapproves of his widowed mother’s rekindled affection for Eugene Morgan, a self-made automobile manufacturer.