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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 film based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. It was Orson Welles' second film. As he did for Citizen Kane, Welles acted as both writer and director. He did not star in this picture, but did provide voice-over narration.

RKO, feeling that it was too long and desiring a more commercially appealing product, deleted fifty minutes and added an upbeat ending to the film while Welles was out of the country. At the time, he was working in Brazil on another project for RKO. Details of Welles' battles involving the editing of "Ambersons" are included in the 1993 documentary "It's All True." The excised portion of "Ambersons" was destroyed, and no copy of it exists.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Agnes Moorehead), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Stanley Cortez), and Best Picture. The film has also been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 1972 and 1982, the film was included in Sight and Sound's list of the top ten films ever made.

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Remake

The Magnificent Ambersons was remade for television in 2002, starring Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Dina Merrill and James Cromwell. It was directed by Alfonso Arau.

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