“A Christmas Carol” (1954): This TV musical adaptation starred Fredric March as Scrooge and Basil Rathbone as Marley, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Bernard Herrmann. “The ...

Basil Rathbone, “The Stingiest Man in Town ... Mister Magoo (voiced by Jim Backus), “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol” (1962): Even though the character of Mister Magoo was kindly ...

When you ask ardent Dickensians to name the best version of "A Christmas Carol," they will ... Fredric March and Basil Rathbone. More recently, Shakespearean veterans like Derek Jacobi and Simon ...

You know Ebenezer Scrooge, the tightfisted miser in Charles Dickens' 1843 "A Christmas Carol," the ... Alastair Sim, Basil Rathbone, Marcel Marceau, Henry Winkler, George C. Scott, Bill Murray ...

You probably all know the story of Charles Dickens’ endlessly adapted 1843 holiday story A Christmas Carol ... so the Ghost in this Basil Rathbone-starring adaptation is a black cloak walking ...

Basically it was yet another retelling of Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" with song and dance and would ... But the Big Draw in this product is the Scrooge of Basil Rathbone. The old Sherlock Holmes is ...

Actor Basil Rathbone, whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes, died of a heart attack Friday in New York. He was 75. Mr. Rathbone’s career spanned 56 years, two continents and all ...