The Magnificent Ambersons
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A melancholic portrait of a spoiled heir's destructive jealousy unraveling his mother's chance at love and a family's decline from grace.
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Essence
Ensemble
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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