#Seymour Hicks

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Seymour Hicks, born today in 1871 #botd

[princesssarisa]

A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: Scrooge (1935 film)

This is the oldest surviving "talkie" version of A Christmas Carol, and its Scrooge is a familiar face from the silent era. Sir Seymour Hicks, who previously starred in the silent Old Scrooge of 1913, now returns to his longtime signature role of stage and screen at age 64.

Unlike the 1913 Old Scrooge, this film is based directly on Dickens' book, not on J.C. Buckstone's stage adaptation. In fact in some ways, this is an especially faithful adaptation, with many details that most other versions cut. For example, this is one of the rare Carol films where the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to see his ex-fiancée Belle with her husband and children, and where Christmas Yet to Come shows Bob Cratchit sitting beside Tiny Tim's dead body. But it's not entirely faithful. For example, while the Christmas Present and Yet to Come sequences are mostly complete, Christmas Past is reduced just to the two scenes with Belle. (Nor is there a separate actor to play Young Scrooge – Hicks is just slightly "de-aged.")

Most memorably and eccentrically, apart from the Ghost of Christmas Present (Oscar Asche), all the ghosts are less... corporeal than usual. Jacob Marley is just a disembodied voice (provided, fittingly, by the original Invisible Man, Claude Rains) and the sound of clanking chains. The Ghost of Christmas Past is just a glowing, faceless silhouette, while the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is just the shadow of a pointing hand. I'll admit that this creative choice makes the ghosts less engaging as characters than they usually are. But it does enhance their etherealness, and it fixes our attention more firmly on Scrooge's emotional journey.

That journey is worth watching, because Seymour Hicks's performance as Scrooge is a vast improvement over his 1913 outing. True, his acting still has a larger-than-life quality, but age and the transition to sound film have mellowed him. He now performs his early meanness with growling verve that stops just short of cartoonishness, and then becomes an endearingly vulnerable, heartfelt figure in his redemption. The rest of the cast is generally good too, with Donald Calthrop's humble yet dignified Bob Cratchit and his family providing particular warmth and heart. The production is intimate yet atmospheric, capturing both the charms and the fog and grime of Victorian England, and William Trytel's vivid, charming musical score completes the film's appeal.

Compared to later Christmas Carol films, this version is old-fashioned and quirky, but it still captures the spirit of Dickens in a memorable, appealing way. It deserves to be seen more often!

@ariel-seagull-wings, @faintingheroine, @thealmightyemprex. @reds-revenge, @thatscarletflycatcher

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6 aprile … ricordiamo …

6 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Ingvar Hirdwall, attore svedese. Considerato uno degli attori più prolifici nella scena cinematografica svedese, si diplomò nel 1960 presso il Teatro Città di Göteborg, alternando in seguito l’attività teatrale con quella televisiva e filmica. Sposato con l’attrice Marika Lindström ed ebbe due figli, entrambi attori. (n. 1934) 2022: Rae Allen, all’anagrafe Raffaella Julia Theresa Abruzzo,…

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the queens of six: the musical

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SIX! 👑

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"one of a kind, no category." 👑💖🎵

drew art for the six broadway queens (wanted to finish it for abby and adrianna's last day, but i didn't get it done in time 😭). plus some individual pictures?? i don't know if anyone wants to use them, but just add credit i guess. idk.

[abs0luteb4stard]

W a t c h e d

This is first time I've watched this in adulthood, this movie is fucking beautiful. Colorful neon streets, the villains are in incredible Technicolor, but also had that 1940-50s mob movie noir style.

It's a goddamn art piece. The matte painting backgrounds, the lighting, the insanely beautifully made character makeups for the mobsters.

There are so many old school character actors mixed with contemporary guys like Pacino etc. And then you have brilliant Dick Van Dyke as a crooked character!

I'll even go out on a limb and say even Madonna was excellent!

It's a cleverly built movie, beautiful visuals, unbelievably beautiful makeup.

It's a treasure!

[the-10-amongst-these-3s]

It’s Samantha Pauly’s birthday! Happy Birthday Queen, you’re a real one.

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[don-lichterman]

Scrooge (1935) | Christmas Movie | Charles Dickens Tale | Full Lenght | Old Christmas Movies | X-mas

Scrooge (1935) | Christmas Movie | Charles Dickens Tale | Full Lenght | Old Christmas Movies | X-mas

🎄 Classic Christmas Movies 🎄 🎅 It is Christmas Eve of 1843: Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted and greedy elderly money-lender, is working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit. Two businessmen arrive to collect a donation for the poor, but the old man responds that prisons and workhouses are sufficient resources to deal with poor people. Scrooge…

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Sir Seymour Hicks #botd

[princesssarisa]

A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: "Old Scrooge" (1913 silent film)

This 40-minute silent film is based on a stage play by J.C. Buckstone, which was one of the most popular Carol adaptations at the time. That same play also seems to have influenced Edison's 1910 short adaptation, since it condenses the familiar story in similar ways. But this is a more direct stage-to-screen adaptation, starring the actor who created the role of Scrooge at the play's premiere: Seymour Hicks, who by 1913, at age 42, had already performed the role thousands of times onstage.

As in the 1910 Edison film, the three ghosts of Christmas are nowhere to be seen. Instead, as in Buckstone's play, Marley's Ghost – an especially creepy version with a cadaverous white face, dressed in a white robe – serves as Scrooge's guide throughout his visions. And visions they are. Also as in the 1910 film, Scrooge isn't transported to different times and places, but sees them appear and fade. Nearly all the action is confined to one setting: an office and sitting room combined, as this Scrooge evidently runs his business from home. And the visuals are chosen for maximum effect without dialogue. In Christmas Yet-to-Come, we watch Tiny Tim die with his family at his bedside, rather than just seeing the family in mourning. As for Scrooge himself, he's almost a cartoon of an unsociable miser, with shabby clothes and unkept hair, who goes from dismissing beggars and beating a cheeky street urchin with his fist at the beginning to showering poor children with coins from his window by the end.

To be honest, the whole film is very stagy and melodramatic, and nowhere more so than in Seymour Hicks's performance. After his initial cartoonish meanness, he spends most of the rest of the film crying melodramatic tears or literally swooning in terror, with all the heart-clutching, body-flinging grandeur of clichéd silent film acting. The pacing is odd too, as the entire first half is dedicated to Scrooge's meanness before Marley appears, with only about twenty minutes left to cover all his ghostly visions and his redemption. Still, it's not an unenjoyable movie. Despite his hamming, Hicks's Scrooge has an endearing verve about him, and the supporting cast is good all around. I also have to praise the script for dealing more with Dickens' themes of poverty and charity than the 1910 Edison version. It also features an interesting opening sequence, which reveals biographical information on Dickens, then depicts the author himself writing A Christmas Carol. (Though anachronistically, it shows the familiar middle-aged bearded Dickens instead of the clean-shaven young man he really was at the time.)

This is far from a perfect film, but it most certainly not boring.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @superkingofpriderock, @faintingheroine, @reds-revenge, @thatscarletflycatcher

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i had this in my drafts for like a week debating when to post it and then found out today is 180th anniversary of the book's publishing

for the many versions that are just titled 'a christmas carol' or 'scrooge' i added the actor playing scrooge in addition to the year. i included mainly the most well known versions + those i personally watched growing up, if you have a different one you'd like to add please share in the tags or replies!

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"Independent's Day" editorial shot by Steven Meisel for US Vogue September 1993, featuring Amber Valetta, Bridget Hall, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Jenny Shimizu, Kristen McMenamy, Lauren Hutton, Linda Evangelista, Michele Hicks, Nadege du Bospertus, Nadja Auermann, Naomi Campbell, Patti Wilson, Shalom Harlow, and Stephanie Seymour modeling the FW93 collections of Gianni Versace, Comme des Garcons, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Rifat Ozbek, Jean Paul Gaultier, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Chanel

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⭐HADESTOWN DREAM CAST⭐

Justin Cooley (top) or Ben Levi Ross (bottom) as Orpheus

Chibueze Ihouma as Orpheus in the picture.

Bryce Charles (top), Rachel Zegler (middle), or Kendyl Sayuri Yokoyama (bottom) as Eurydice

Eva Noblezada as Eurydice in the picture.

Josh Groban (top) or Norm Lewis (bottom) as Hades

Tom Hewitt as Hades in the picture.

Adrianna Hicks (top), Amina Faye (middle), or Danielle Brooks (bottom) as Persephone

Maria-Christina Oliveras as Persephone in the picture.

Patina Miller (top) or James Monroe Iglehart (bottom) as Hermes

Nathan Lee Graham as Hermes in the picture.

Joaquina Kalukango, Samantha Pauly, and Andrea Macasaet as The Fates (Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis respectively)

Amelia Cormack, Lindsey Hailes, and Brit West as The Fates in the picture.

Theatre credits under the cut.

THEATRE CREDITS:

Justin Cooley - Seth in Kimberly Akimbo

Ben Levi Ross - Henry in Next to Normal, Evan in Dear Evan Hansen

Bryce Charles - Wendy Darling in Lythgoe Panto's Peter Pan

Rachel Zegler - Maria in Spielberg's West Side Story

Kendyl Sayuri Yokoyama - Angelica/Eliza/Peggy/Maria standby in Hamilton

Josh Groban - Pierre in Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Norm Lewis - Erik in The Phantom of The Opera, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Adrianna Hicks - Catherine of Aragon in Six, Sugar in Some Like It Hot

Amina Faye - Jane Seymour in Six

Danielle Brooks - Sofia in The Color Purple

Patina Miller - Leading Player in Pippin, The Witch in Into the Woods

James Monroe Iglehart - Genie in Aladdin, Lafayette/Jefferson in Hamilton

Joaquina Kalukango - Nettie in The Color Purple, Nelly O'Brien in Paradise Square, The Witch in Into the Woods

Samantha Pauly - Katherine Howard in Six

Andrea Macasaet - Anne Boleyn in Six