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Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, and was produced and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley.
Scrooge is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran.The film was released by Twickenham Film Studios and has since entered the public domain.
Sim's performance in Scrooge (1951) is considered by many to be the best portrayal of the title character on screen, [21] and it is among his best-known film roles, particularly in the U.S. [n 2] In the farcical The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) he played the dual roles of Millicent and Clarence Fritton, the headmistress of St Trinian's and ...
Terence E. Kilburn [1] (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor.Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.
The spirit reminds Scrooge that Fan, dead for some years, is the mother of his nephew. Scrooge is shown his early career in business and money lending as an employee under Fezziwig. At two o'clock, Scrooge meets the merry Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows Scrooge how others keep Christmas. At a church service, Fred and his fiancée, Bess ...
Last Christmas, Mays played 50 characters, from Scrooge down to a potato bubbling against a pot lid, in his one-man "A Christmas Carol" on Broadway, an adaptation he wrote with his wife, Susan ...
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of Scrooge's boyhood, reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The scenes reveal Scrooge's lonely childhood at boarding school, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan, the long-dead mother of Fred, and a Christmas party hosted by his first employer ...
The beloved character actor agrees that Richard Curtis's 2003 holiday favorite could have been more diverse.