The movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Christmas fantasy comedy-drama
produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the 1939 short story
"The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film is considered one
of the most loved films in American cinema and has become traditional
viewing during the Christmas season, alongside popular classics such
as Holiday Inn (and its "remake", White Christmas), A Christmas Carol,
Meet Me in St. Louis, and Miracle on 34th Street.

The animated film Fantasia is produced by Walt Disney and released by
Walt Disney Productions. It is the third feature in the Disney animated
features catalog.

The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical
music conducted by Leopold Stokowski; seven of which are performed
by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor
acts as the film’s Master of Ceremonies.

I Dream of Jeannie is a sitcom/fantasy series, produced by Screen 
Gems, the show originally aired from September 18, 1965 to May 
26, 1970. The first season of the show consisted of 30 episodes
filmed in black and white.

Barbara Eden became 82 in August

Gene Wilder in a scene from Bonnie and Clyde

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)

Wilder is a retired stage and screen actor, comedian, director, screenwriter,
author and activist. He began his career on stage, and made his screen
debut in the TV-series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. Although his first
film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and
Clyde, Wilder’s first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The
Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor. He is also well-known for his performance as Willy
Wonka in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1971.

1974

Gene Wilder singing “Pure Imagination” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Richard Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013)

LONDON (AP) – Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played
the boy wizard’s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the “Harry Potter” movies,
has died.

Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier
of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry,
central England.

He paid tribute to Griffiths as “a remarkable man and one of our greatest
and best-loved actors.”

Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles — the hero’s grudging Muggle
guardian in the “Harry Potter” series, and flamboyant Uncle Monty in 1980s
cult classic “Withnail and I.”

“I was proud to say I knew him,” said “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe.