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Simple Gifts

Phillip Schopper

1977 • 1h 0m

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...

Simple Gifts

Cast

Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen DewhurstSelf - Host

Hermione Gingold

Hermione GingoldNarrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)

José Ferrer

José FerrerNarrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)

Dean WarehamNarrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

David JonesNarrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)

Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Claudette Sutherland(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Crew

Virginia Woolf

Virginia WoolfNovel

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore RooseveltOriginal Concept

Fontaine Fox

Fontaine FoxOriginal Story

Michael Sporn

Michael SpornAssistant Director

Maurice Sendak

Maurice SendakWriter

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