Simple Gifts
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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
21 people
Colleen Dewhurst
Self - Host
Known for
Annie Hall
The Dead Zone
Hermione Gingold
Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)
Known for
Gigi
Bell, Book and Candle
RO Blechman
José Ferrer
Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
Known for
Dune
Lawrence of Arabia
Phillip Schopper
Also in
Ishtar
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Fontaine Fox
Dean Wareham
Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)
Moss Hart
Jose Ferrer
Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas")
David Jones
Narrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)
Tony Allon
(segment "A Memory of Christmas")
Edward Hulse
RO Blechman Director · Phillip Schopper Director Maurice Sendak Writer
United States release December 3, 1977 · Produced in United States · Production Educational Broadcasting Corporation
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Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 3, 1977
TV · PBS
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