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Scrooge, again and again and........

At amazon.com, I searched for "A Christmas Carol" to find my favorite--the 1938 version with Reginald Owen. There are so many different film versions of the Dickens' classic, I lost count at seventeen. Someone has done a much more thorough search that you can read up on here, if you'd like. A general list: 1910--silent film 1938 with Reginald Owen 1951 with Alistair Sim (Scrooge--also a favorite of mine) 1954 with Fredric March 1979 with Henry Winkler 1985 with George C. Scott 1988 with Bill Murray (Scrooged) 1992 with the Muppets and Michael Caine 1999 with Patrick Stewart 2000 with Vanessa Williams (Diva's Christmas Carol) 2004 with Kelsey Grammer, a musical There was a ballet in 1992, and there are too many animated versions to count including Brer Rabbit, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Mickey Mouse, Mr. Magoo, Sesame Street, Beavis and Butthead,..... Evidently, anyone who has ever acted on stage, in front of a camera, in cartoon has done A Christmas Carol. Wha...