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The Magnificent Ambersons

on BBC Two England

Family drama, concluding today's Saturday Matinee triple bill of Orson Welles films. Starring Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead.

Unwilling to change with the times, the Amberson family reflect the decadence and faded glory of doomed America.
(1942, U) (Black and white)

("TX" is on Orson Welles, tonight at 7.40pm)
(See Films: pages 48-51)

Contributors

Eugene Morgan:
Joseph Cotten
Fanny:
Agnes Moorehead
Isabel:
Dolores Costello
Lucy Morgan:
Anne Baxter
George Amberson Minafer:
Tim Holt
Director:
Orson Welles
Director [additional sequence, uncredited]:
Freddie Fleck

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