The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total
Orson Welles
- Narrator
- (voice)
Edwin August
- Citizen
- (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
- Matron
- (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
- Citizen
- (uncredited)
Olive Ball
- Mary - Maid
- (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
- Reverend Smith
- (uncredited)
William Blees
- Young Man at Accident
- (uncredited)
Lyle Clement
- Citizen
- (uncredited)
Bobby Cooper
- George Minafer as a Boy
- (uncredited)
Don Dillaway
- Wilbur Minafer
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Orson Welles
- Fred Fleck(additional sequences) (uncredited)
- Robert Wise(additional sequences) (uncredited)
- Writers
- Booth Tarkington
- Orson Welles
- Joseph Cotten(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaOne of former silent star Dolores Costello's last roles. She was forced to retire from the film business as her face had become badly scarred by early film makeup, which was highly caustic.
- GoofsTowards the end of a long tracking shot with George and Lucy in a horse-drawn carriage, a portion of the rear end of a camera car and some sort of filmmaking equipment briefly enter the left side of frame.
- Crazy creditsAll of the credits except the RKO logo, the film's title and the copyright notice are recited orally (by Orson Welles) at the end of the film, not written out onscreen. As Welles recites the names of the production crew, items are seen, such as a motion picture camera when he says "Director of Photography", a pair of hands turning knobs as he says the words "Sound Recording By", etc.
- Alternate versionsFrom "Magnificent Obsession," a Vanity Fair article by David Kamp from April 2000: "On March 11, Robert Wise sent a 132-minute composite print (a print with picture and soundtrack synchronized) to Rio for Orson Welles to review. This is the version that scholars and Wellesophiles consider to be the 'real' Magnificent Ambersons. Curiously enough, the first blow against this version was dealt not by RKO but by Welles himself. Before he'd even received the composite print, he impulsively ordered Wise to cut 22 minutes from the middle of the film, mostly scenes concerning George Minafer's efforts to keep his mother and Eugene apart. Wise complied, and on March 17, 1942, The Magnificent Ambersons, in this form, had its first preview screening, in the Los Angeles suburb of Pomona. Sneak previews are a notoriously unreliable gauge of a film's worth and potential for success, and RKO did The Magnificent Ambersons a particular disservice by previewing it before an audience composed mostly of escapism-hungry teenagers, who had come to see the movie at the top of the bill, The Fleet's In, a feather-light wartime musical starring William Holden and Dorothy Lamour".
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
- SoundtracksThe Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
(1892) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Fred Gilbert
Sung a cappella by Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter,
Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins
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What might have been...
The fate of this almost magnificent film must rank as one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the cinema. viewing it in its present state is like looking at the Venus Di Milo, or at a beautiful Greek vase that has been shattered. One can only admire the fragments...and what gorgeous fragments they are: Major Ambersons heartbreaking meditation by the fireplace,the quarrel between Eugene Morgan and Georgie about the Automobile, Isabel's death, Agnes Moorehead's magnificent performance, the splendor of the Amberson mansion, and the ballroom scene. Perhaps someday, some powerful computer might be able to reconstruct the missing footage from stills and from Welles script...perhaps. Until that almost impossible moment, one can only envy the handful of men and women who were able to see it whole, and to understand what they were seeing.
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- Also known as
- Der Glanz des Hauses Amberson
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- Budget
- $850,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) officially released in India in English?
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