Movie details

Simple Gifts(1977)

Name: Simple Gifts
Genre: Animation, TV Movie
Released: 1977-12-03
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Colleen Dewhurst, Hermione Gingold, José Ferrer, Dean Wareham, David Jones

Animation TV Movie

Status: Released
Release date: 1977-12-03
Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 10.0 / 10 (1 votes)
Original language: en
Certification: -
Budget: -
Revenue: -
Popularity: 1
Adult content: No

IMDb

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.