Amy Amberson is an older actress who returns to New York City to revive her acting career, and she decides to spend the summer in the Empire Suite at the Hopewell Hotel. Mrs. Amberson is tall and confident with short brown hair with a darker streak through it. After Scarlett receives the key to the Empire Suite on her fifteenth birthday and her parents give Spencer three days to get an acting job before forcing him to attend culinary school, Mrs. Amberson checks into the Empire Suite. Mrs. Amberson decides to hire Scarlett as her assistant after determining that she is going to write a book about her life. When Mrs. Martin catches the cast of "Hamlet" rehearsing in the Hopewell basement, Mrs. Amberson claims it was her idea because she has decided to financially back the play in exchange for being made the co-director.
