Simple Gifts (1977)
1h
Running Time
December 3, 1977Release Date
Simple Gifts (1977)
1h
Running Time
December 3, 1977Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.
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Cast & Crew.
Colleen Dewhurst
Self - Host
Hermione Gingold
Narrator (segment 'The Great Frost') (voice)
José Ferrer
Narrator (segment 'A Memory of Christmas') (voice)
Dean Wareham
Narrator (segment 'My Christmas') (voice)
David Jones
Narrator (segment 'December 25, 1914') (voice)
Paul Dooley
(segment 'Lost & Found') (voice)
Charles Bender
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Claudette Sutherland
(segment 'Lost & Found') (voice)
Dwight Marfield
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
R.O. Blechman
Director / Writer / Producer
Phillip Schopper
Director
Ellen Sandler
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Fontaine Fox
Original Story
Dean Wareham
Narrator (segment "My Christmas")
Moss Hart
Novel
Edward Hulse
Original Concept
Theodore Roosevelt
Original Concept
Maurice Sendak
Writer
Virginia Woolf
Novel
Arnold Black
Music
Joe Canestro
Editor
Steven Parton
Assistant Director