Simple Gifts

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Simple Gifts

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.

Release Date

1977-12-03

Year

1977

Duration

1h 0m

Status

Released

Score

0.00

Cast

Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst

Self - Host

Hermione Gingold

Hermione Gingold

Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)

José Ferrer

José Ferrer

Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)

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Dean Wareham

Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

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David Jones

Narrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)

Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

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Claudette Sutherland

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)