I saw it on release in 1969 AT Christmas. Not on Christmas Day, but a few days before. The movie has Christmas scenes, and all that snow and skiing, and it was RELEASED at Christmas so...yes.
Interesting, though:
I think the producers alternated Bond movies in the 60's and early seventies. Some got Christmas time releases, some got summer releases:
Goldfinger: Christmas.
Thunderball: Christmas (then in re-release in summer when its beach scenes were more "relevant.")
You Only Live Twice: Summer.
OHMSS: Christmas
Diamonds Are Forever: Christmas
Live and Let Die: Summer.
The Man With the Golden Gun: Christmas
The Spy Who Loved Me: Summer.
...then Bond stayed a summer release for many years, and now seems to have come back (in the Craig years) as a Thanksgiving-Christmas corridor series.
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