The Magnificent Ambersons

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Cast

Joseph Cotten

as Eugene Morgan

Dolores Costello

as Isabel Amberson Minafer

Anne Baxter

as Lucy Morgan

Tim Holt

as George Minafer

Agnes Moorehead

as Fanny Minafer

Ray Collins

as Jack Amberson

Erskine Sanford

as Roger Bronson

Richard Bennett

as Major Amberson

Orson Welles

as Narrator (voice)

Edwin August

as Citizen (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This is a actually quite a sad story; though given the wealth and opportunity offered the young "George" (Tim Holt) it might seem fatuous to say so. He is born into a family with money, status and privilege so, consequently, grows up into a young man with little, if any, appreciation of anything - a...

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