

The Magnificent Ambersons
DirectorOrson Welles
“Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!”
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Cast

Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan

Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer

Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan

Tim Holt
George Minafer

Agnes Moorehead
Fanny Minafer

Ray Collins
Jack Amberson

Erskine Sanford
Roger Bronson

Richard Bennett
Major Amberson

Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)

Edwin August
Citizen (uncredited)

Georgia Backus
Matron (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Citizen (uncredited)
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