On this day in movie history - Grumpier Old Men (1995)

Grumpier Old Men

directed by Howard Deutch,

written by Mark Steven Johnson,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1995.

Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert, James Andelin, Marcus Klemp, Max Wright, Cheryl Hawker, Wayne A. Evenson, Allison Levine, John Patrick Martin, Adam Ward, Ryan Waldoch, James Cada, Jaclyn Ross, Kyle Christopherson, Jeffrey L. Smith, Geraldo Rivera, Warren Schueneman, Jack Mitsch, Sterling Robson,Gregory Schuneman, Denny Schusted, Michelle Johnston, Wallace Olson, Carl Johnson, Eugene Karels, Lawrence Grivna, Joel Edwards, Larissa Lowthorp, Johnny Luckett, Tammara Melloy, Shirley Stoler, Ryan Wotherspoon.

On this day in movie history - Always (1989)

Always

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Jerry Belson and Diane Thomas,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1989.

Based on the movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), directed by Victor Fleming and John E. Burch.

Music by John Williams.

 

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn, Roberts Blossom, Keith David, Ed Van Nuys, Marg Helgenberger, Dale Dye, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones, Kim Robillard, Jim Sparkman, Doug McGrath, Shereil L. Bowens, Ascension Fuentes, Todd Jacobson, DeMarious T. Morganfield, Mike O'Neal, Larry Landless, Steve Shatnyski, James Pruitt, Joseph McCrossin, JD Souther, David Jackson, David Kitay, Gene Strimling, Roy E. Harrison, Ted Grossman, Gerry Rothschild, Loren Smothers, Taleena Ottwell, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Braveheart, Jim Dunkin, Douglas 'Hurricane' Hall, Tim Hiser, Jaclyn Nagata, Joseph Michael Roth.

On this day in movie history - Do Not Disturb (1965)

Do Not Disturb

directed by Ralph Levy and George Marshall,

written by Richard L. Breen and Milt Rosen,

based on the play Some Other Love by William Fairchild,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1965.

Music by Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage.

Cast:
Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney, Aram Katcher, Leon Askin, Lisa Perav, Michael Romanoff, Albert Carrier, Barbara Morrison, Dick Winslow, Raquel Welch, Britt Ekland.

On this day in music history - The album Disconnect, by Helen Jane Long (2022)

Disconnect

by Helen Jane Long

was released on December 22, 2022.

On this day in music history - A Streetcar Named Desire (1998)

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Rodney Gilfry,

Anthony Dean Griffey, San Francisco Opera and André Previn,

was released on December 22, 1998.

On this day in music history - Symphony No. 5, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1808)

 Symphony No. 5

by Ludwig van Beethoven,

was first performed in Vienna on December 22, 1808.

Symphony in four movements.

Opus 67, in C minor.

Composed: 1804–1808.

Born on this day – Lynne Thigpen:

 

Actress

December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003

#Warriors, #WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego

Born on this day – Peggie Castle:

Actress

December 22, 1927 – August 11, 1973

Born on this day – Ruth Roman:

Actress

December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999

Born on this day – Freddie Francis:

 

Cinematographer

Director

December 22, 1917 – March 17, 2007

Born on this day – Barbara Billingsley:

Actress

December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010

#JuneCleaver, #LeaveItToBeaver

Born on this day – Doris Miles Disney:

Writer

December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976

Credits:

A Compound for Death (1943); Murder on a Tangent (1945); Appointment at Nine (1947); Fire at Will (1950); The Last Straw (aka Driven to Kill) (1954); Dark Road (aka Dead Stop) (1946); Family Skeleton (1949); Straw Man (1951); Trick or Treat (aka The Halloween Murder) (1955); Method in Madness (aka Quiet Violence) (1957); Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959); Find the Woman (1962); The Chandler Policy (1971); Unappointed Rounds (1956); Black Mail (1958); Mrs Meeker's Money (1961); Shadow of a Man (1940); Who Rides a Tiger? (aka Sow the Wind) (1946); Enduring Old Charms (aka Death for My Beloved) (1947); Testimony by Silence (1948); That Which Is Crooked (1948); Count the Ways (1949); Look Back on Murder (1951); Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952); Do unto Others (1953); Prescription: Murder (1953); Room for Murder (1955); My Neighbor's Wife (1957); No Next of Kin (1959); Dark Lady (aka Sinister Lady (1961); Should Auld Acquaintance (1962); Here Lies... (1963); The Hospitality of the House (aka Unsuspected Evil (1964); The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (aka Fateful Departure) (1965); At Some Forgotten Door (1966); The Magic Grandfather (aka Mask of Evil (1966); Night of Clear Choice (aka Flame of Evil (1967); Money for the Taking (1968); Voice from the Grave (1968); Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (aka Death by Computer) (1970); Fatal Choice (1970); Three's a Crowd (1972); The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972); Only Couples Need Apply (1973); Don't Go into the Woods Today (1974); Cry for Help (1975); Winifred (1976); Muppets Most Wanted (2014); The Last Straw / The Pale Door / The Dead Don't Speak (1955).

Born on this day – Lil Green:

Blues singer

Songwriter

December 22, 1901 – April 14, 1954

Lawrence Clark Powell, on books:

Books are islands in the ocean of time.
They are also oases in the deserts of time.
 
- Lawrence Clark Powell.

Born on this day – Fred M. Wilcox:

 

Photographed with Pal (as Lassie), on the set of Lassie Come Home (1943)

Director

December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964