Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett star in the 1973 #Christmas episode 'The Party' from the classic BBC sitcom "STEPTOE AND SON" written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and directed by Graeme Muir #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎅🏻🍷🔔☃️🦌🎁🎄🕯

Festive fun at the Spencers when Frank brings home the tree in the xmas episode 'Jessica's First Christmas' (1974) from the classic BBC sitcom "SOME MOTHERS DO 'AVE 'EM" starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice dir. Michael Mills #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄🔔🍷☃️🕯🦌🎅🏻❄️🎁

Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" (1944) 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer #ChristmasCountdown2025 #Xmas2025 🎅 ✨️ ❄️ ☃️ 🔔 🎄🍷🦌🕯🎁

Walt Disney Productions classic animated short film "TOY TINKERS" (1949) sees Chip 'n' Dale trying to steal nuts from Donald Duck's home #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄🔔🍷☃️🕯🦌🎅🏻🎁

Classic festive comedy with Rodney Bewes, James Bolam and Brigit Forsyth in "THE LIKELY LADS" Christmas Special which first aired #OnThisDay in 1974 #ChristmasCountdown2025 #Xmas2025 🎄🔔🍷☃️🕯🦌🎅🏻 🎁

Festive fun with the staff and pupils of Fenn Street school in the 1968 "PLEASE SIR!" #Christmas episode "It's The Thought That Counts" #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎅🏻🍷🔔☃️🦌🎁🎄🕯 #Xmas2025

“NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION” (1989) dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, William Hickey, Mae Questel, Diane Ladd, John Randolph 🎬 Warner Bros. #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄❄️🦌✨🍷🎁🔔🕯☃️🎅🏻⭐️ #Xmas2025

Remembering the late 🇬🇧British stage, radio, film and television actor William #MauriceDenham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) born #OnThisDay in Beckenham, Kent

Remembering the late 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actress Dame #PeggyAshcroft DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), born #OnThisDay in Croydon, England

Remembering the late 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actor #NoelHowlett (22 December 1902 – 26 October 1984) born #OnThisDay in Bexley, England

“THE NUN’S STORY” (1959) dir. Fred Zinnemann Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Lionel Jeffries, Dean Jagger 🎞 Warner Bros.

Remembering the late 🇬🇧 British stage, radio, film and television actress #PatriciaHayes OBE (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) born #OnThisDay in Streatham, England

#JaneFonda "BARBARELLA" (1968) 🎬 Paramount Pictures

Goldie Hawn and Peter Sellers in the 🇬🇧 British romantic comedy “THERE’S A GIRL IN MY SOUP” (1970) dir. Roy Boulting 🎬 Columbia Pictures

“I’M ALL RIGHT JACK” (1959) dir. John Boulting Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford, Liz Fraser, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl 🇬🇧 British Lion Films 🎬

William Hartnell, Richard Attenborough, Harry Ross “BRIGHTON ROCK” (1948) dir. John Boulting 🎬 Charter Film Productions 🎞 ABPC 🎥 Pathé Pictures 🇬🇧 #FilmNoir

Remembering the late 🇬🇧British film directors & producers #JohnBoulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) & #RoyBoulting (21 December 1913 – 5 Nov 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s & 1960s

Happy Birthday #JaneFonda

Jane Fonda and Rod Taylor photographed on location at Fifth Avenue, Manhattan in New York on the set of the MGM 🇺🇸 American romantic comedy film “SUNDAY IN NEW YORK” (1963) dir. Peter Tewksbury

Jane Fonda and co-star Robert Redford photographed with film director Gene Saks on location in Washington Square Park in New York, on the set of the 🇺🇸American romantic comedy “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK” (1967) 🎬 Paramount Pictures

“KLUTE” (1971) dir. Alan J. Pakula Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider 🎬 Warner Bros. #JaneFondaDay

Jane Fonda and Henry Fonda photographed in Times Square, New York in 1960

Cecil B. DeMille’s 🇺🇸 American romantic biblical drama “SAMSON AND DELILAH” starring Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury and Henry Wilcoxon, premiered #OnThisDay in 1949, at two of New York City's Broadway theatres, the Paramount and Rivoli 🎬 Paramount Pictures

The 🇺🇲 American animated musical fantasy film "SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS" premiered #OnThisDay in 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it was the first Walt Disney feature film 🎬 RKO Radio Pictures

“JACKIE BROWN” (1997) dir. Quentin Tarantino Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro 🎬 Miramax Films

Marc Allégret's 🇫🇷 French comedy-drama film "ZOUZOU" starring Josephine Baker and Jean Gabin, premiered #OnThisDay in 1934 in Paris, notable for Baker's title character role as the first black woman to play the leading role in a major motion picture 🎬 Corona Films

John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, “PULP FICTION” (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino 🎬 Miramax Films

Happy Birthday to London born 🇨🇦 Canadian actor, producer, director and singer #KieferSutherland born #OnThisDay in 1966 see here in his role as 'The Caller' with co-star Colin Farrell in the neo-noir thriller "PHONE BOOTH" (2002) dir. Joel Schumacher 🎬 20th Century-Fox

Happy Birthday to Samuel L. Jackson born #OnThisDay in 1948 in Washington D.C., seen here in an early cameo role in the romantic comedy "COMING TO AMERICA" (1988) dir. John Landis with Eddie Murphy, Shari Headley, Arsenio Hall *WARNING* adult language 🎬 Paramount Pictures

Jane Fonda, seen here in a publicity still with Robert Redford at Paramount Studios for “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK” (1967) dir. Gene Saks #JaneFondaDay

#JaneFonda “CAT BALLOU” (1965)

The Mechanic (1972) Directed by Michael Winner starring Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent and Jill Ireland.

Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly in, Singin' in the Rain (1952).

George Roy Hill's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲American caper film "THE STING" starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Harry Gould and Robert Earl Jones 🎬 Universal Pictures

“THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE” (1967) dir. George Roy Hill Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Mary Tyler Moore, James Fox, John Gavin 🎬 Universal Pictures

Remembering the late 🇺🇸American film director #GeorgeRoyHill (20 December 1921 – 27 December 2002) born #OnThisDay in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Remembering 🇺🇸 American film director #GeorgeRoyHill #BOTD in 1921, here his classic Western "BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID" (1969) with Paul Newman & Katharine Ross cycling through the Academy Award winning song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Happy Birthday #JennyAgutter, seen here with Bernard Cribbins & Iain Cuthbertson on location at Oakworth Station in West Yorkshire for the iconic reunion scene in Lionel Jeffries' film adaptation of E. Nesbit's 1906 novel "THE RAILWAY CHILDREN" (1970) 🎬 EMI Elstree 🎞 MGM- EMI

The 🇺🇸 American romantic comedy film “WORKING GIRL” directed by Mike Nichols, starring Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack premiered #OnThisDay in 1988 in Los Angeles 🎞 #20thCenturyFox

Martin Scorcese's 🇺🇸American epic historical drama film "GANGS OF NEW YORK" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 2002 🎬 Touchstone Pictures 🎞 Miramax Films

Happy Birthday to 🇬🇧British theatre, film and television actress and narrator #JennyAgutter OBE, born #OnThisDay in Taunton, Somerset, England

Frank Capra’s 🇺🇸 American #Christmas fantasy drama film “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore premiered #OnThisDay in 1946 at the Globe Theatre, New York City 🎬 RKO Radio Pictures #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄🦌🔔🍷🕯✨☃️🎁❄️🎅🏻 #xmas2025

Home Alone (1990) dir. Chris Columbus 𝘉𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯.

The 🇬🇧 British mystery film "THE MIRROR CRACK'D" directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1980 🎬 EMI Films 🎞 Columbia-EMI-Warner

The 🇺🇸 American comedy film "9 to 5" directed by Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, and Sterling Hayden was released in U.S. #OnThisDay in 1980 🎬 20th Century-Fox 🎞 IPC Films

Oliver Stone's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲American war film "PLATOON" starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1986 🎬 Orion Pictures

Robert De Niro won his second Academy Award for his portrayal of boxing🥊champion Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese's "RAGING BULL" which was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1980 🎬 United Artists

Robert Benton's 🇺🇲 American legal drama "KRAMER VS. KRAMER" starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander and Justin Henry was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1979 🎬 Columbia Pictures

The ninth #JamesBond film "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN" directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams and Hervé Villechaize premiered #OnThisDay in 1974 at the Odeon, Leicester Square in London 🎬 Eon Productions

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British theatre, film, radio and television actor #SamKelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014) born #OnThisDay in Salford, Manchester, England