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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 71
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  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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