'Are There No Prisons, Workhouses? Decrease the Surplus Population': SCROOGE Classic Film
- A clip from the film "Scrooge" (1951) directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, & Brian Worth as Fred, his nephew.
- Scrooge (A Christmas Carol). The 1951 version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale was 1st released as Scrooge in the UK, but US markets changed the title to A Christmas Carol. Character actor Alastair Sim gives a dynamic, multi-layered rendition of Ebenezer Scrooge. He portrays this flawed human, who is both despicable & deserving of empathy. Brian Desmond Hurst & Noel Langley expand on Charles Dickens novella by making a few changes that highlight the evolution of Scrooge: viewers learn more about how events in his life turned him bitter & selfish.
Scrooge is darker than many versions before it, but it truly emphasizes some of Dickens’ important subject matters, like poverty & despair. It’s a gloomy look at Scrooge’s world, but A Christmas Carol also offers real moments of joy, like when Ebenezer becomes a new man because of his traumatizing Christmas Eve. The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic that captivatingly captures the essence of the original story. https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2486986/the-best-a-christmas-carol-movie-adaptations-ever-ranked
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- 'Charles Dickens Begins 2nd American Tour,' Dec. 2, 1867. Charles Dickens began his 2nd American reading tour at Boston's Tremont Temple. An enthusiastic audience, which included literary stars Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Ralph Waldo Emerson, seemed to have forgotten Dickens's widely known unflattering views of the U.S. described in his book American Notes. A 55-year-old Dickens read selections from A Christmas Carol & The Pickwick Papers.
Although Dickens was in declining health, he embarked on an ambitious travel schedule. 6 months later, having given more than 400 readings, Dickens returned to Boston once more before concluding his U.S. tour in New York City. He died 2 years later, having written 14 novels, several of which are classics of English literature...
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years earlier didn't go so well as you know, Dickens couldn't get funds for his readings, found Americans vulgar, etc.
What a shame I never realized that his home was a museum and open to visit, (since 1925) given the number of times I was in London. I could kick myself, esp. since history and historic properties are a large part of my work as a museum specialist. Same with Abbey Road, the area and studio! Dumb...
- Charles Dickens's study, home and museum, London.
The museum is situated at 48 Doughty Street, Dickens’s London home from 1837-1839. He moved there with his wife Catherine and their eldest son Charlie. While living in Doughty Street, Dickens finished writing The Pickwick Papers, wrote Nicholas Nickleby and most famously of all, Oliver Twist. These early publications made Dickens an international celebrity, even Queen Victoria was a fan!
After the Dickenses left Doughty Street, the property was largely used as a boarding house until the Dickens Fellowship purchased it as their headquarters in 1923. The house opened to the public in 1925 and houses a significant collection linked to Dickens and his works.
Today the Charles Dickens Museum is set up as though Dickens himself had just left. It appears as a fairly typical middle-class Victorian home, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations which are known to have belonged to Dickens. A visit to the museum allows you to step back into 1837 and to see a world which is at once both intimately familiar, yet astonishingly different. A world in which one of the greatest writers in the English language, found his inspiration. https://dickensmuseum.com/pages/about-us
