Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter. Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...
...Magnificent Ambersons (Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt; TIME, July...
Welles manages to make young Minafer one of the most insufferable grandees the camera has ever made hateful. The grand. gloomy, theatrical fellow kills his pretty, weak, widowed mother (Dolores Costello) by the cocksure ruthlessness with which he prevents her marrying the man (Joseph Cotten) she has always loved. His selfishness and self-righteous pride of birth ruin his own love affair with Lucy (Anne Baxter), the vital daughter of Inventor Cotten. His character is his family's fate...