60 years ago:
The Small World of Sammy Lee (UK)
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
1963-04-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/95220
#TheSmallWorldofSammyLee #JuliaFoster #RobertStephens #WilfridBrambell #Movies

57 years ago:
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (UK)
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
1966-04-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42724
#MorganASuitableCaseforTreatment #DavidWarner #VanessaRedgrave #RobertStephens #Film

54 years ago:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (UK)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
1969-02-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5179
#ThePrimeofMissJeanBrodie #RonaldNeame #MaggieSmith #RobertStephens #PamelaFranklin #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Starting the festive cheese and finishing our latest annual Box of Delights rewatch with episode 6. Such a magical and timeless series, with some superb performances.
#FestiveFood #Cheese #BoxOfDelights #TheBoxOfDelights #PurplePim #ChristmasTV #80sTV #ChildrensTV #BritishTV #PatrickTroughton #RobertStephens

“Actors come up to me going: ‘God, your father could drink.’ And I say – ‘I am aware. Yet you neglect to say that he did things nobody else can do with Shakespeare.’ He was extraordinary.”
#TobyStephens about #RobertStephens who died on this day #otd in 1995.