Got to see Luca Venantini in Aladdin (1986).

Here are some photos of him around the age of 15 or 16


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Luca looks great as a teen especially in the second to last photo.   

Thanks, 'bowser'.

Cinefan wrote on 26. Dec 2016 at 21:15:




I had not seen this version of A Christmas Carol.  I really enjoyed it! 

It's from the CBS Television Network show Shower of Stars (1954–1958).

Quite a good musical and nice adaptation.  Stars Paramount's leading man
Fredric March (two time Academy Awards winner)
who played up against such legends as Greta Garbo, Carole Lombard,
Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant in the early days of the 'talkies'.

Also stars screen legend Basil Rathbone.

I had never heard of Christopher Cook either.  He definitely has a great siniging voice.

Also little Jimmy Baird is credited as the 'Boy' whom Scrooge calls out of the window to
on Christmas morning, asking him what day it is.  However, a screen cap of the
'Boy' sure doesn't look like (and he doesn't sound like) Jimmy Baird.  I think Jimmy is still
around.  Will look into it.

Here are some images of Christopher Cook:


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Fredric March along with Christopher Cook




And some images of the 'Boy':

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Watch it here:
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I noticed that there was another boy we should know, playing Peter Cratchit:


I remember seeing the first broadcast of this on our new black and white TV set. I recall at the time thinking the show was just silly and that Fredric March was embarassing himself. But you must realize that in that year there had been at least 20 different versions of A Christmas Carol shown on television - everybody was doing it! It seemed as if just about every manufacturer of products in the U.S. sponsored a television anthology series, an original play every week, but in December 1954 almost all of them showed a version of this story. And it is a great story and I always loved it but by the time Christmas rolled around in 1954 many of us felt that there could be too much of a good thing.

YoungArthur wrote on 31. Dec 2016 at 07:19:


Thanks!  I completely overlooked him

I have several of his films in the archive.  Can't wait to get them out and
screen them. 

The Red Pony (1949) with Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum.  Directed
by two-times Academy Awards winner Lewis Milestone.

And I think I also have Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948) from the
Hal Roach Studios.


Thanks again!




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