Reina King played actress Alfre Woodard's oldest daughter, Lanell Cooley, in the movie "Scrooged, a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, and a modernization of what by Charles Dickens?
Scrooged Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol". The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman.
The Death of Poor Joe The Death of Poor Joe is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as Joe, a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman. The film, which went on release in March 1901, takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character. The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954. Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost", released in November 1901.