‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ opens in U.S. 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: 'The Magnificent Ambersons' trailer

(Friday, July 10, 1942)The Magnificent Ambersons, a film about an Englishman on vacation in France who is caught up in the German invasion of that country, opened today in the U.S.

Directed by Orson Welles, the film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins.