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Simple Gifts (1977)

ALL 12/03/1977 (en) Animation, TV Movie 60 Min
  • Release
    12/03/1977
  • Production
    Thirteen, Educational Broadcasting Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Simple Gifts
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  2. Story

  3. Joe Canestro

    Editor

  4. R.O. Blechman

    Producer



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  1. Colleen Dewhurst

    Self - Host

  2. Hermione Gingold

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

  3. José Ferrer

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

  4. Dean Wareham

    Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

  5. David Jones

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

  6. Paul Dooley

    (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

  7. Claudette Sutherland

    (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 14

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Simple Gifts (1977) 60 Min

ALL 12/03/1977 (en)
Animation, TV Movie
  • Release 12/03/1977
  • Production
    Thirteen, Educational Broadcasting Corporation
  • Original title Simple Gifts
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Joe Canestro

    Editor

  4. R.O. Blechman

    Producer



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