Reginald Owen
Ebenezer Scrooge
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83 Photos. Drama Family Fantasy. An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve. Director. Edwin L. Marin. Writers. Charles Dickens. Hugo Butler. Stars. Reginald Owen. Gene Lockhart. Kathleen Lockhart. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.59. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 5.7K users. 119 User reviews.
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- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Edwin L. Marin
- 1938-12-16
Terry Kilburn costarred as Tiny Tim and a young June Lockhart (Gene and Kathleen's daughter) made her screen debut as one of the Cratchit daughters. Leo G. Carroll played Marley's Ghost. The characters of Fred (Scrooge's nephew) and Elizabeth, his fiancée (his wife in the novelette), were greatly expanded in order to work in a romantic angle ...
This 1938 MGM version sticks with the basic story setup. Curmudgeonly miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) hates Christmas good cheer and all that goes with it. He sends his employee Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart) home on Christmas Eve begrudging him the holiday, and ends up firing the clerk in an unfortunate snowball accident.
- Edwin L. Marin, Marvin Stuart, Dolph Zimmer
- Reginald Owen
Crotchety miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) hates Christmas and mistreats his long-suffering employee, devoted family man Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart). But a visit from the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley (Leo G. Carroll) and three Christmas spirits (Lionel Braham, Ann Rutherford, D'Arcy Corrigan) might convince him to ...
- 69 min
Gene Lockhart ... Bob Cratchit: Kathleen Lockhart ... Mrs. Cratchit: Terry Kilburn ... Tiny Tim: Barry MacKay ... Fred (as Barry Mackay) Lynne Carver ... Bess: Leo G. Carroll ... Marley's Ghost: Lionel Braham ... Spirit of Christmas Present: Ann Rutherford ... Spirit of Christmas Past: D'Arcy Corrigan ... Spirit of Christmas Future: Ronald ...
He played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman. He also had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and Judge Harper in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
