#A Christmas Carol 1938

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1938 | dir. Edwin L. Marin

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25 Days Of A Christmas Carol Bonus December 31: A Christmas Carol (1938) 

directed by Edwin L. Marin, written by Hugo Butler, starring Reginald Owen

More than a century ago... in London on Christmas Eve.

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fave new to me films of dec 2022 ❤️💚💜

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June Lockhart with her parents Gene Lockhart & Kathleen Lockhart & Terry Kilburn in “A Christmas Carol” (1938).

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Screenland magazine, January 1938

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Four young members of the Gramercy Boys Club, 535 East 16th St, practice on their homemade Christmas carol instruments. December 3, 1938.

Photo: Leroy Jakob for the NY Daily News

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The Origin of the Addams Family

The Addams family has always been goth and enamored with the macabre. But did you know they didn’t always have names?

They started as recurring characters in New Yorker cartoons by Charles Addams in 1938. They were a mother, father, uncle, grandmother, two children, and a butler in an eccentric family. (Occasionally others joined them. It's a big family.) They weren’t all officially named until the 60s, when dolls were released of Wednesday and Morticia, and the TV show debuted in 1964.

Charles Addams made a LOT of cartoons in his lifetime, about 1,300 total*. Only 58 of those in The New Yorker featured the Addams family, but they are what he became best known for. He also published some collections on his own, eventually creating 150 standalone, single-panel comics featuring the Addams family.

You’d expect Charles Addams to look like Gomez, but he didn’t. He actually looked like this:

He based the father of his strange family on this guy:

That’s Thomas E. Dewey, the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He ran for president in 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952. He had a reputation for honesty, but he was also kind of a weirdo. It was said that he had "a personality that attracted contempt and adulation in equal proportion." Maybe that’s why Charles Addams based a character on him. Or maybe it’s just because he was funny looking.

Addams, who signed his name Chas, was only somewhat involved with the TV show. The rights to it belonged to his second wife. He earned residuals from the show, which placed him in dire straits once the show was canceled after only two years. At that point, he had come to rely on the income, and The New Yorker wasn’t publishing him enough for him to live off of.

The show had more tropey, goofy plots than their later adventures, since it was a sitcom. Charles Addams criticized the show because the characters were only “half as evil” as they were in his comics. They had run-ins with neighbors and local politicians. Gomez ran for mayor of their small town. They recommended Cousin Itt for a job at the zoo and he was mistaken for an exotic animal. Wacky hi-jinks that never rose to the heights of pouring boiling oil on carolers, as the family did in a Christmas strip Charles drew, which was later sold as greeting cards.

Still, the show expanded upon the original comics and established much of what became canon for the Addams family and its members to this day. They have a dungeon in their mansion they like to relax in. The front gate has a mind of its own. No one can quite explain where their money comes from. They try to help others, even though their help is rarely received well. And they can't understand why other people don't live like they do.

In the next few weeks, I'll be posting character profiles of the various members of the Addams family throughout the years, from what I can find of their inception up through the Netflix show. I hope you will enjoy it.

*edited to clarify that his 1,300+ cartoons were drawn in his lifetime, not exclusively for The New Yorker.

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Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lockhart (Kathleen) as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit in Edwin Marin’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)

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A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American drama film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella of the same name, starring Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by three spirits. The film was directed by Edwin L. Marin from a script by Hugo Butler.

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i had this in my drafts for like a week debating when to post it and then found out today is 180th anniversary of the book's publishing

for the many versions that are just titled 'a christmas carol' or 'scrooge' i added the actor playing scrooge in addition to the year. i included mainly the most well known versions + those i personally watched growing up, if you have a different one you'd like to add please share in the tags or replies!

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Actress and Author, Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows, Passes at 84

Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died October 12 in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84.

Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family.

“I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”

Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey on Oct. 27, 1938, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Albert, was an attorney, and her mother, Ann, was active in civic groups.

She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Vassar — she roomed with Jane Fonda there — and Rhodes College in Memphis, where at 19 she served as Wink Martindale’s assistant on his WHBQ-TV show, Dance Party. She then earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show.

During breaks in production, Parker acted on Broadway in September 1968 in Woman Is My Idea, which lasted just five performances, and in the early Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.

And toward the end of the daytime serial, she and fellow castmembers including John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

In 1972, Parker relocated to Los Angeles and went on to appear on episodes of such shows as Medical Center, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (as a witch) and The Incredible Hulk, where she played David Banner’s first wife in a flashback sequence in the pilot.

In her later years, Parker turned to writing and teaching — her novels include Angelique’s Descent (1998), The Salem Branch (2006), Wolf Moon Rising (2013) and Heiress of Collinwood (2016). The books proved popular among Dark Shadows‘ still-devoted, conventions-attending fan base, as well as devotees of romance and horror genre novels.

Parker kept in touch with her co-stars including Scott, Selby, Roger Davis, the late John Karlen and others throughout her life, particularly once the conventions became annual events in the late 1980s through the 1990s and up to the 50th anniversary celebration in 2017.

Many of the original cast, including Parker, recorded a series of Dark Shadows audio dramas in the 2000s released by Big Finish Productions. They also reunited for a “Smartphone Theatre” Zoom-style, Covid-era performance of A Christmas Carol in 2021 and, on Halloween night 2020, a YouTube/Zoom Dark Shadows cast reunion.

Parker is survived by second husband Jim Hawkins, daughter Caitlin, sons Rick and Andy, and their wives Miranda and Celia; and grandson Wesley.

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Lionel Braham and Reginald Owen in "A Christmas Carol" (1938)

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June Lockhart was born on June 25th, 1925, making her 99 years old today. She made her film debut at the age of 13 in the 1938 film "A Christmas Carol" playing the daughter of Bob Cratchit who was played by her real-life father, Gene Lockhart. June is probably best remembered today for her roles in the 1960s TV series "Lassie" and "Lost in Space".

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Ebenezer Scrooge and Shakespeare

Here's another one of my autism-brain lists of connections.

In honor of the season, I found myself wondering "How many actors who have played Scrooge in adaptations of A Christmas Carol have also acted in Shakespeare?"

It turns out that quite a few have done just that! Not only the British actors, but some of the American and Australian ones too.

Seymour Hicks (1913 and 1935 films)

His stage performances included the title role in Richard III.

Russell Thorndike (1923 silent film)

Here we have one of the true Shakespearean actors on the list. His stage roles included the title role in King Lear, both Hamlet and the Ghost in Hamlet, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Egeon in The Comedy of Errors, Roderigo in Othello, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, Trinculo in The Tempest, Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Banquo in Macbeth, and Bishop Gardiner in Henry VIII, as well as roles in Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Cymbeline, and Richard II, though it hasn't been recorded who he played. He also directed productions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Tempest, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew. And onscreen, he played the Priest in the 1948 Laurence Olivier film of Hamlet and the First Priest in Olivier's 1955 Richard III.

Reginald Owen (1938 film)

Onscreen he played Thomas Cromwell in a silent adaptation of Henry VIII, and he evidently played Shakespeare roles onstage too, though I don't know which ones.

Alastair Sim (1951 film and 1971 animated short)

Onstage he played the Messenger and later the Duke of Venice in Othello, Trebonius and Lucillus in Julius Caesar, Antonio in Twelfth Night, Claudius in Hamlet, the title role in Cymbeline, Duke Senior in As You Like It, Banquo in Macbeth (and one performance as Macbeth himself, substituting for an injured Malcolm Keen), Polixenes in The Winter's Tale, the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, Antonio and later Prospero in The Tempest, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

Basil Rathbone (The Stingiest Man in Town, 1956, and Tales from Dickens, 1959)

Here we have another true Shakespearean actor. Between major roles and minor roles, and between stage and screen, he claimed to have played "fifty-two roles in twenty-three plays of Shakespeare." The following is a nearly-complete list: Paris, Tybalt, and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet; Trebonius and Cassius in Julius Caesar; Iago in Othello; Lewis in King John; Aumerle in Richard II; Poins, Westmorland, and Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part II; the Dauphin in Henry V; Hastings in Richard III ; Lysander and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream; a Watchman and Conrade in Much Ado About Nothing; Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors; the Major Domo, Hortensio, and Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew; William Page, Pistol, and Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Florizel in The Winter's Tale; Ferdinand in The Tempest; Silvius and Orlando in As You Like It; Antonio and Orsino in Twelfth Night; Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus; Lennox and Malcolm in Macbeth; Bernardo, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Laertes in Hamlet; Solanio, Lorenzo, and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice; Cornwall and Albany in King Lear.

Ron Haddrick (1969 and 1982 Australian animated films)

He played many Shakesperean roles on both stage and screen, including, but not limited to, Petruchio and later Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and Alonso in The Tempest.

Albert Finney (the musical Scrooge, 1970)

Onstage he played the title roles in Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Henry V, and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.

Michael Hordern (1977 TV film)

Another true Shakespearean. His roles on both stage and screen included Lodovico in Othello, Macduff and later Macbeth in Macbeth, Menenius in Coriolanus, Jaques in As You Like It, Polonius in Hamlet, Parolles in All's Well That Ends Well, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Prospero in The Tempest, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, John of Gaunt in Richard II, Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost, Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew, Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, and the title role in King Lear.

George C. Scott (1984 TV film)

Onstage he played the title role in Richard III and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and he was also in As You Like It once, though I can't seem to learn which role he played.

Michael Caine (The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992)

Just one Shakespeare role: Horatio in Hamlet at Elsinore with Christopher Plummer, 1964.

Tim Curry (1997 animated film)

He played Shakespeare himself in the 1978 miniseries Will Shakespeare.

Patrick Stewart (1999 TV film)

Another true Shakespearean actor, both onstage and onscreen. His performances include the title roles in Macbeth and Othello (the latter in a race-swapped production that had an otherwise all-black cast), Prospero in The Tempest, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Enobarbus and later Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the Player King and later both Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet, the Dauphin in Henry V, Cornwall in King Lear, Launce and later Sir Eglamour in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tom Snout and later Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, John of Gaunt in Richard II, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Simon Callow (2001 animated film)

Onstage and on the radio, he's played the title roles in Titus Andronicus and Richard III, Falstaff in both The Merry Wives of Windsor and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, Prospero in The Tempest, Orlando in As You Like It, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. He's also starred in a one-man play called Being Shakespeare, and done dramatic readings of the Sonnets.

Kelsey Grammer (2004 TV musical)

Onstage he's played the title role in Macbeth and Cassio in Othello, as well as roles in Hamlet and Richard II.

Christopher Plummer (2017 Dickens biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas)

Another veteran Shakespearean. His roles include the title role in Hamlet (including in 1964's Hamlet at Elsinore, with The Muppet Christmas Carol's Scrooge Michael Caine as his Horatio) Iago in Othello, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Bardolph in Henry IV: Part I, the title role in Henry V, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and the title role in King Lear.

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hi, i’m a fictive alter (i think) whose looking for help finding my identity. my believed source is dabi from my hero academia, and some general ‘keywords’ are fire, blue, burnt/burning, frosty (in a weird way?? i can’t really explain it) and just kinda darker vibes. i hope that’s enough explanation.

thanks in advance

heyo anon !! we'd be happy to help :D we'll give some names, pronouns, genders, and potential interests

everything is under the cut just to make the blog easier to navigate for followers (as it'll be quite the long post)

Names

blue themed ,,, (these are taken directly from my last post)

Cobalt, Periwinkle, Oxford, CornFlower, Cerulean, Sapphire, Alice, Bleu, Maya, Tiffany, Blizzard

burnt / burning themed ,,,

Blaze, Flame, Fire, Alight, Incinerate, Match, Ardent, Ignited, Kindling, Ash / Ashe, Smolder, Glow, Flash, Flicker, Scorch, Flare

frost / frosty themed ,,,

Ice, Crystal, Verglas, Hoar, Rime, Frigid, Arctic, Wintry, Bitter, Cool, Chilly, Rimy, Icy, Glacier, Glacial

darker vibes themed ,,,

Raven, Damian , Lilith / Lillith / Lilithe / Lillithe, Branwen, Darcy, Cain, Adrienne, Blake, Blaise, Draco, Ebony, Morticia, Amaris, Arachne, Salem, Delaney, Bellatrix, Narcissa / Narcissus, Dusk

pronouns

blue themed ,,,

blu/blue ,, teal/teals ,, ind/indigo ,, aqu/aqua ,, cy/cyan ,, cy/an

burnt / burning themed ,,,

haze/hazey ,, swirl/swirls ,, explo/explosion ,, boo/boom ,, ars/arson ,, arson/arsonist ,, fla/flare

frost / frosty themed ,,,

fog/fogs ,, mi/mist ,, silver/silvers ,, ice/ices

darker vibes themed ,,,

nyct/nycto ,, dark/darks ,, hor/horror ,, death/deadly ,, null/nulls ,, null/nullify ,, bo/bones ,, bone/boney ,, merci/merciless ,, peril/perish ,, peril/perilous ,, peril/perils ,, reap/reapers ,, tomb/stone ,, cof/coffin ,, grave/gravestone ,, grave/graveyard ,, grave/graves ,, gra/graves ,, gloo/glooms ,, gloom/gloomy

potential interests (not separated by theme, rather separated by type of activity)

Research topics ,,,

The Salem Witch Trials ,, Wicca, Witchcraft, or Paganism ,, History of Lobotomies ,, History of Asylums or Mental Institutions ,, Serial Killers ,, History of Cannibalism ,, History of Cults

Movies ,,,

Rise of the Guardians (2012) ,, A Christmas Carol (1938) ,, Original Home Alone Series (1990, 1992, 1997, and 2002) ,, Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Paranormal Activity Series (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2021) [rating from my mum : its just freaky shit that happens - she has apparently never seen any of them, though] ,, The Grudge (2004) ,, Talk to Me (2023) ,, The Others (2001) ,, Burning (2018) ,, Backdraft (1991) ,, Money Train (1995)

TV Shows ,,,

Supernatural (2005-2020) ,, The Original Addams Family (1964-1966) ,, Wednesday (2022-current with a new season confirmed) ,, Stranger Things (2016-current with a new season confirmed coming out in 2025) ,, Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)

Books ,,,

Wheel of Time Series (Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson) ,, Children of the Night (Dan Simmons) ,, Mortal Instruments Series (Cassandra Clare) ,, Miss Peregrine Series (Ransom Riggs)

Games ,,,

Life is Strange (Square Enix) ,, Fran Bow (Kill Monday Games) ,, Little Nightmares (Bandai Namco Entertainment) ,, Little Misfortune (Kill Monday Games)

Please search for trigger warning for any and all media recommended !! /lh