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'Pampered Youth' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring Cullen Landis, Alice Calhoun, and Allan Forrest. It is an adaption of the 1918 novel 'The Magnificent Ambersons' by Booth Tarkington.Goble p. 901[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PamperedYouth1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Pampered Youth'] at silentera.com It was one of the final films produced by Vitagraph Studios before the firm was absorbed into Warner Bros.

Plot



As described in a review in a film magazine, twenty-five or thirty years ago, every small town boasted of its Amberson family, whose home was the show place and whose every move made news. Major Amberson's (King) daughter Isabel (Calhoun) loves Eugene Morgan (Forrest), but he gets himself in disgrace by performing a drunken serenade, and leaves town. Isabel marries Wilbur Minafer (MacDonald), a poor second choice, who makes a very passable husband. Not loving her husband, Isabel centers all of the love in her heart upon her son George, who naturally grows from a very spoiled young boy into a despicable young cad. His extravagances eventually deplete the Amberson fortune. When his father dies, George resents his mother's love for Morgan, who has returned as a prosperous automobile manufacturer. George has come to love, however, Morgan's daughter Lucy (Merriam). The death of Major Amberson forces George to go to work, bringing about his regeneration. Then there is the heroic rescue of Isabel by Morgan when the home in which she lodges burns. The final tableau suggests the rehabilitation of George.

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Preservation



The complete feature is a lost film. However, a 28 minute abridgement survives[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2495/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'Pampered Youth'] and it was included on the Criterion edition of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' Blu-Ray release.

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Bibliography



* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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