Your Favorite Scrooge
 

Which version of A Christmas Carol is your favorite?

How come no option for Bill Murray in Scrooged? Or Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol?

Lol, KB- that was my first thought as well. Bill Murray's 'Scrooge' character (Frank Cross) was great.

I added Michael Caine to the poll. He's not my favorite Ebenezer, but the Muppet version is one of my absolute fave tellings of A Christmas Carol.


I also added Albert Finney. (I'm mad with mod power today, mwah-ha-ha!). Not only is the bizarre British musical Scrooge my absolute favorite version of the tale, but Albert Finney is bar-none the best Ebenezer Scrooge in the business!

Loved Bill Murrey in Scrooged. Not to mention, Carol Kane. :)

I'd have to vote for Scrooge McDuck from Mickey's Christmas Carol. :)
I haven't seen the other versions.

I don't think I've ever seen any of those movies.

A Christmas Carol is a story that I've seen so many times in so many forms that whenever the opportunity arises to watch the actual story (or to read the book) I find I just have no interest.

So I voted for George C. Scott. He was such a jerk in real life that I figure he must have made a pretty darn good scrooge.

Which is why I didn't add Bill Murray to the poll. Slippery slope. He's in a story based on 'A Christmas Carol' and his character is not named Ebenezer Scrooge. If we start adding every loose adaptation, there will be 6,293 entries in the poll.

So, my preference for voting (tho certainly not for commenting) would be to limit to the actual, full-length adaptations of A Christmas Carol, and leave out all the spoofs and send-ups and every sitcom ever made.




Oh, and despite the roughly 6,000 times each of us has seen some different form of A Christmas Carol, I heartily recommend that - at least once in your life (if not every single Christmas time), you read the original Dickens. It's a treat.

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I saw Patrick Stewart do a one-man reading of the story. That was awesome.

No Scrooge McDuck?!

I just re-read 'A Christmas Carol' last night, iSm.:)

Happy Christmas to you, Wendy. Reading 'A Christmas Carol' is a beloved tradition that I've failed to observe in recent years. I hope to get back to it someday.


I attended a reading of it by Patrick Stewart once, too. ommmagod that was good.

I love reading Dicken's "A Christmas Carol." It defines Christmas for me. Not going to get around to it this year though.

I prefer live theater to movies so my "vote" goes to the guy in SCR's production of "A Christmas Carol." My apologies to whatever-his-name-is.

Patrick Stewart is awesomeness.

Even if Murray were on the list, I wouldn't say I preferred his Scrooge. I love the flick and have seen it countless times, but I think they could have done it with many other famously sarcastic actors.

We have a collection of Christmas Ghost stories by Jerome K. Jerome that we've read on past Christmas Eves - hilarious and delightful. I may have to pull out the copy again for a good Christmas read.