Simple Gifts (1977)

Simple Gifts

1977

Animation TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Phillip Schopper

R.O. Blechman

Cast

Claudette Sutherland as (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Colleen Dewhurst as Self - Host

David Jones as Narrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)

Dean Wareham as Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

Hermione Gingold as Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)

José Ferrer as Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)

Paul Dooley as (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)