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Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British stage, film and television actor. He made his stage debut in 1913. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison. Mollison acted in the West End on a number of occasions.
YearTitleRole1930Basil Dibley1932Percy Gibbs1933Lord Victor Wilby1933Jack Rawden / WilloughbyClifford Mollison was born on 30 March 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), The Lucky Number (1932) and A Southern Maid (1934). He died on 4 June 1986 in Cyprus.
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Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), released in the US as Radio Follies, is a British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Will Hay, Clifford Mollison and Helen Chandler. It followed on from the 1933 film Radio Parade.
Clifford Mollison was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mollison began his career with a role in the dramatic adaptation "A Christmas Carol" (1951) with Alastair Sim.
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On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge tells two businessmen that he has no intention of celebrating Christmas. He refuses to donate to two men collecting for the poor. His nephew, Fred, invites him to dinner the next day, but Scrooge refuses, disparaging Fred for having married. Scrooge reluctantly gives his clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off since ...
Sim was Hurst's first choice to play Scrooge. Hurst was immensely proud of the film and that it was shown endlessly. Teresa Derrington, who played Fred's maid who gives Scrooge quiet encouragement to see Fred, said Alastair Sim was not as encouraging to her during filming, and asked her sneeringly if it was her first film role.
The film was released in Great Britain under its original title, Scrooge. United Artists handled the U.S. release under the title A Christmas Carol. The film was originally slated to be shown at New York City's Radio City Music Hall as part of their Christmas attraction, but the theatre management decided that the film was too grim and did not poss...
Box-office
The film was one of the most popular in Britain in 1952, but was a box office disappointmentin the United States. However, the film became a holiday favourite on American television where it was broadcast regularly during the 1950s and 1960s.
Critical reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times posted a favourable notice, writing that producer Brian Desmond Hurst "has not only hewed to the line of Dickens' classic fable of a spiritual regeneration on Christmas Eve, but he has got some arresting recreations of the story's familiar characters...The visions of Scrooge's life story are glimpses into depressing realms, and the aspects of poverty and ignorance in nineteenth-century England are made plain. To the credit of Mr. Hurst's production, not t...
List of A Christmas CaroladaptationsScrooge at IMDbScrooge at AllMovieScrooge at the TCM Movie DatabaseScrooge at the British Film Institute[better source needed]Clifford Mollison was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mollison began his career with a role in the dramatic adaptation "A Christmas Carol" (1951) with Alastair Sim. Mollison then began to rack up a number of film credits, including roles in "The Baby and the Battleship" ...
Clifford Mollison is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Scrooge, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Lucky Number, Love Thy Neighbour, Radio Parade of 1935, Oh! What a Lovely War, That's Your Funeral, and No Hiding Place.
