As it turned out, I was only able to view one version of A Christmas Carol this year. Normally, I see several, but scheduling just didn’t work out, not to mention I didn’t notice this Charles Dickens’ classic being shown all that much. This A Christmas Carol was the one starring Reginald Owen from 1938.
It wasn’t the first one, but it’s darn close.
One of the first things I noticed was that one of the ghosts to visit Scrooge was very pretty, and I don’t remember seeing such a pretty ghost before. It turns out that the Ghost of Christmas Past was played by the beautiful Ann Rutherford. She ...