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A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.


“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.

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)
The Magnificent Ambersons is a drama, romance film released in 1942 exploring themes of small town, marriage proposal, jealousy, love of one's life, marriage crisis, only child. Directed by Orson Welles, it stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. 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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