November 28, 1951 –
The British film Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol,) starring Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, and Patrick Macnee, premiered in NYC on this date. (One of our favorite versions.)
Changes to the screenplay from the Charles Dickens book were made, mostly in the Christmas Past sequence. Among these changes are: reversing the birth order of Scrooge and his sister, so as to add that Scrooge’s mother died giving birth to him; creating a character named “Mr. Jorkin” and flashbacks of several incidents in Scrooge’s past (his sister’s death, meeting Jacob Marley, taking over Fezziwig’s warehouse, and Marley’s death) which do not appear in the book.
The Haus of Dcaligari 