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Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts

Animation, TV Movie

1h

December 3, 1977 (47 years ago)

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst

Self - Host

Birthday: June 3, 1924

53 August 22, 1991 (67)
Hermione Gingold

Hermione Gingold

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

Birthday: December 9, 1897

79 May 24, 1987 (89)
José Ferrer

José Ferrer

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

Birthday: January 8, 1912

65 January 26, 1992 (80)
Dean Wareham

Dean Wareham

Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

Birthday: -

--
David Jones

David Jones

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

Birthday: -

--
Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Birthday: February 22, 1928

4997
Claudette Sutherland

Claudette Sutherland

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Birthday: July 13, 1939

3886