But for me, the most enjoyable retelling of the popular Christmas tale will always be the 1938 MGM version with Reginald Owen as Scrooge, which Turner Classic Movies will broadcast on December 18.

Wilson must have been confusing this scene with the written passage when viewing the movie "A Christmas Carol" starring Reginald Owen in 1938.

In the 1938 version of “A Christmas Carol,” Reginald Owen, right, plays curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge, confronted by the ghost of his former partner, Marley (played by Leo G. Carroll).

Truth is most often found in the paradox. Gene Lockhart, left, as Bob Cratchit, talking to Reginald Owen, right, as Ebenezer Scrooge, in a scene from the film "A Christmas Carol," released in 1938.

The Charles Dickens classic story of redemption, "A Christmas Carol," is such a familiar and popular story that it's almost a mortal lock that someone, somewhere is going to present the work ...

The Charles Dickens 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol” has been produced in many versions on stage, in film and on television. Here are some fun facts about the 1938 version.

Reginald Owen’s irascible Scrooge dominates 1938’s Christmas Carol. It opens with credits while a familiar Christmas carol fills the background with “Christ is born in Bethlehem.” ...

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Others included children’s versions “The Muppet Christmas Carol” (1992) and “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol” (1962) and variations starring Patrick Stewart (1999), Reginald Owen (1938 ...