An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve. /// Starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge and Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits. / MGM's adaptation of Charles Dickens' story starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge.
Host George Murphy introduces clips from Meet Me in St. Louis(1944) (as Judy Garland sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), A Christmas Carol (1938), and Kismet (1955) ("Stranger in Paradise").
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1955
12/21/1955
Approved
TV Series Episode 30 minutes
A
The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder. /// Private detective Philip Marlowe gets mixed up in a case involving a missing wife and murder at Christmas time.
Louise Randall is an independent woman whose "glass is half full" mentality was passed onto her from her father. Louise hopes that those around her, especially her children, have that same ethic of life. Louise learns that if she is ever to find true love in her life, she will have to have a special man who has the same outlook, and that she can't mold others to that mentality. She finds such a man in the form of Harold Pierson, her second husband who most see as being unreliable and non-driven. But together, Louise and Harold and their children try one business venture after another, some with success, some without. World events such as World War I, the Great Depression and World War II affect what happens to the family and their ventures.
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
