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.
Simple Gifts
December 3, 1977
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Cast (7)
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)
Claudette Sutherland
(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
Crew (14)
Directing
Michael Sporn
Assistant Director
Phillip Schopper
Director
Steven Parton
Assistant Director
R.O. Blechman
Director
Writing
Virginia Woolf
Novel
Theodore Roosevelt
Original Concept
Maurice Sendak
Writer
Moss Hart
Novel
Edward Hulse
Original Concept
Fontaine Fox
Original Story
R.O. Blechman
Writer
Production
R.O. Blechman
Producer
Sound
Arnold Black
Music
Art
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Joe Canestro
Editor