‘A Christmas Carol’ (1938)

Canadian Screen Star Gene Lockhart, on the right, as “Bob Cratchit”, and Bunny Beatty, on the left, as “Martha Cratchit”, in Edwin L. Marin’s holiday classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1938), an American drama film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella of the same name that was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. It also stars Reginald Owen as “Ebenezer Scrooge”, an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by three spirits. The movie was a family affair, it also starred Gene Lockhart’s wife, English actress Kathleen Lockhart, as his wife in the movie, “Mrs. Cratchit”, and his daughter June Lockhart, as his daughter in the movie, “Belinda Cratchit”. Baby Boomers would all come to know June Lockhart as ‘TV Moms’, as the mother on ‘Lassie’ and then as the mother on ‘Lost in Space’, and after that, as “Dr. Janet Craig” on ‘Petticoat Junction’. Also performing in the movie are English child star Terry Kilburn as “Tiny Tim Cratchit”, Barry MacKay as “Fred” (Scrooge's nephew), Lynne Carver as “Bess” (Fred's fiancée), John O'Day as “Peter Cratchit”, Leo G. Carroll as “Marley's Ghost”, Ann Rutherford as “Ghost of Christmas Past”, Lionel Braham as “Ghost of Christmas Present”, D'Arcy Corrigan as “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come”, and Ronald Sinclair as “Young Scrooge”. Remembering Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957), the Canadian character actor, playwright, singer, and lyricist, and father of actress June Lockhart.