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.” ...

A Christmas Carol might not have the best Scrooge of all time, but George C. Scott's performance is a solid nine out of ten, and this version features the most adorable and pitiable Tiny Tim of ...

This version of "A Christmas Carol" aired on CBS in 1984 with George C. Scott as Scrooge. Scott was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the leading role in this television special.

And the direction is very fine. Arden has become a Broadway regular since his revival of “Spring Awakening” in 2015, and “A Christmas Carol” is his strongest and most confident work to date.

But no Santa in any school production. However, one holiday time on a Monday, when our “A Christmas Carol” production was dark, I was asked to participate at Neiman Marcus at South Coast Plaza.

I know that many people are intensely loyal to the 1951 version (titled A Christmas Carol in the United States, and released in the U.K. as Scrooge), starring Alastair Sim. I understand why.

But it isn’t long before Frank is put through A Christmas Carol of his own, and his personal ghosts aren’t above laying on hands on him to impart the most important lesson of his life. Watch ...

We will take to “A Christmas Carol” in this season, as have the millions before us, but with a special thump of the heart. Because the story believes in our better, more generous inner selves.