Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts (1977)

Released Animation, TV Movie · 60 min

 

Simple Gifts (1977)

Released Animation, TV Movie · 60 min

 

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... see more
Thirteen, Educational Broadcasting Corporation,

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... see more
Thirteen, Educational Broadcasting Corporation,
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RUNTIME
N/A minRELEASED
Dec 3, 1977COUNTRY
USLANGUAGE
ENSPOKEN
EnglishBUDGET
N/AREVENUE
N/A

Cast & Crew

Hermione Gingold

Acting

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

Claudette Sutherland

Acting

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Colleen Dewhurst

Acting

Self - Host

José Ferrer

Acting

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

Dean Wareham

Acting

Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

David Jones

Acting

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

Paul Dooley

Acting

(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Moss Hart

Writing

Novel

Maurice Sendak

Writing

Writer

Virginia Woolf

Writing

Novel

R.O. Blechman

Writing

Director

Arnold Black

Sound

Music

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