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Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A Chr [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:14:07 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject: Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:46:54 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
From Those Were The Days
1939 - The Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol", was read by
Lionel Barrymore on "The Campbell Playhouse" on CBS.
I don't think Barrymore "read" the story, I think he appeared as Scrooge
in a dramatization of the [removed] I believe I have a recording of [removed]
By the early 1950s, I first heard him as Scrooge on the Hallmark Radio
Hall of [removed] That would have been around 1954 or [removed] I don't know how
much longer the Hallmark Radio Hall of Fame lasted, but that was
certainly near the end of most network radio.
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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] B7 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 B7 Newton, MA 02459
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