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The Magnificent Ambersons

on BBC Television

Orson Welles's production starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
In a swiftly changing society, today's values bear little relation to tomorrow's. Eugene Morgan, inventor of a 'horseless carriage', is on the way up; the Magnificent Ambersons, undisputed leaders of society because of their great wealth and family pride, are on the way down, though they do not realise it. Young George, a typical Amberson, spoilt, obstinate, and uncompromising, refuses to recognise the signs of the times and completely wrecks his mother's happiness and almost ruins his own before he is humbled.
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Contributors

Screenplay/Director:
Orson Welles
From a story by:
Booth Tarkington
Eugene:
Joseph Cotten
Isabel:
Dolores Costello
Lucy:
Anne Baxter
George:
Tim Holt
Fanny:
Agnes Moorhead

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