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The Magnificent Ambersons

1942 | 88 min | Drama

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Synopsis

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age. The film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, with Welles providing the narration.

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Credits

Producer
Orson Welles
Director
Orson Welles
Screenplay
Orson Welles
Director of Photography
Orson Welles, Stanley Cortez, Russell Metty
Original Music Composer
Bernard Herrmann
Editor
Robert Wise
Country

Box office · USD, worldwide

Budget
$1.1M

Cast · 12

Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett

Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello

Don Dillaway

Don Dillaway

Nancy Gates

Nancy Gates

Agnes Moorehead

Trailer

2:05

RKO Pictures. Public domain — from Wikimedia Commons, re-encoded and served from our own storage.

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