Movie · 1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
“Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!”
Released 10 July 1942 88 min Drama / Romance More from 1942 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Richard Bennett
as Major Amberson
Lew Kelly
as Citizen (uncredited)
Edwin August
as Citizen (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
as Reverend Smith (uncredited)
Erskine Sanford
as Roger Bronson
Henry Roquemore
as Hardware Man (uncredited)
Ray Collins
as Jack Amberson
Agnes Moorehead
as Fanny Minafer
Georgia Backus
as Matron (uncredited)
Dolores Costello
as Isabel Amberson Minafer
Joseph Cotten
as Eugene Morgan
Orson Welles
as Narrator (voice)
Tim Holt
as George Minafer
Anne Baxter
as Lucy Morgan
Nancy Gates
as Girl (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
as Citizen (uncredited)
Olive Ball
as Mary (Maid) (uncredited)
William Blees
as Young Man at Accident (uncredited)
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The numbers
56years between the oldest and youngest billed
72Richard Bennett — oldest on the call sheet
16Nancy Gates — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast