The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Top billed cast
Joseph CottenEugene Morgan
Dolores CostelloIsabel Amberson Minafer
Anne BaxterLucy Morgan
Tim HoltGeorge Minafer
Agnes MooreheadFanny Minafer
Ray CollinsJack Amberson
Erskine SanfordRoger Bronson
Richard BennettMajor Amberson
Orson WellesNarrator (voice)
Edwin AugustCitizen (uncredited)
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