• Newly Released
  • Popular
  • Actors
MySite
  • Newly Released
  • Popular
  • Actors
My Favorites ❤️

Services
BrandingDesignMarketingAdvertisement
Company
About usContactJobsPress kit
Social
Movie 1

Simple Gifts

1977-12-03
60 minutes
AnimationTV Movie
0

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.

Country : United States of AmericaLanguage : en

Cast:

Movie 1

Colleen Dewhurst

Self - Host

Movie 1

Hermione Gingold

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

Movie 1

José Ferrer

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

Movie 1

Dean Wareham

Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

Movie 1

David Jones

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

Movie 1

Paul Dooley

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Movie 1

Claudette Sutherland

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)