• A Christmas Carol: Campbell Playhouse (Dramatized)

  • By: Orson Welles
  • Narrated by: Orson Welles
  • Length: 59 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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A Christmas Carol: Campbell Playhouse (Dramatized)

By: Orson Welles
Narrated by: Orson Welles
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Publisher's summary

The CBS Campbell Playhouse 1939 broadcast of A Christmas Carol.

Back before television, a holiday season tradition in America was listening to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens as performed on radio by Lionel Barrymore and narrated by Orson Welles with the Mercury Theatre group. The music was composed and conducted by the legendary Bernard Herrmann.

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A thoroughly enjoyable telling of The Christmas Carol

This version of The Christmas Carol is especially sweet since it is the recording of many popular actors from my grandparents era. If anyone has a fondness of black and white movies from the 30's and 40's, you will enjoy hearing Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. Orson Welles simply introduces this rendition heard on the radio so long ago.

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Beautiful Memories

I had this album as a child and somehow it was lost in many of my moves. What joyous memories this has brought back!

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A Radio drama from days gone by...

Great fun to hear Barrymore emoting and Orson Welles taking over.. a radio broadcast sponsored by
Campbell's Soup! Just wonderful..

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