The Magnificent Ambersons
“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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Cast
48 people
Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan
Known for
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer
Known for
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan
Known for
All About Eve
The Ten Commandments
Tim Holt
George Minafer
Known for
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Stagecoach
Agnes Moorehead
Fanny Minafer
Known for
Bewitched
Citizen Kane
Ray Collins
Jack Amberson
Known for
Citizen Kane
Perry Mason
Erskine Sanford
Roger Bronson
Known for
Citizen Kane
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Richard Bennett
Major Amberson
Known for
If I Had a Million
Journey into Fear
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
Edwin August
Citizen (uncredited)
Also in
The Song That Reached His Heart
A Beast at Bay
Georgia Backus
Matron (uncredited)
Known for
Citizen Kane
Harry A. Bailey
Citizen (uncredited)
Also in
Upstream
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Orson Welles Director · Booth Tarkington Author Bernard Herrmann Composer
Worldwide gross $1M · Budget $1.1M · United States release July 10, 1942
Box office
Budget
$1,100,000
Worldwide gross
$1,000,000
Gross vs. budget
0.9×
Production
Mercury Productions
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
RKO
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 9, 1942
Premiere · Los Angeles, California
United States · July 10, 1942
Theatrical
Canada
July 10, 1942 · Theatrical
France
November 15, 1946 · Theatrical
Germany
July 22, 1966 · Theatrical
Italy
August 21, 1946 · Theatrical
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