The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Genre	Drama
Based on	The Silent Stars Go By (short story) by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Screenplay by	Earl Hamner, Jr.
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Starring	Lee Remick Angel Lansbury Polly Holliday Joseph Warren Mart Hulswit Michael Pearlman Samantha Atkins Michael Higgins
Theme music composer	Fred Karlin
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kenneth Kaufman Michael Lepiner Earl Hamner Jr. (co-executive producer)
Producer(s)	Dick Atkins J. Boyce Harman Jr. (co-producer)
Cinematography	Larry Pizer
Editor(s)	Paul Fried
Production company(s)	Amanda Productions Telecom Entertainment Inc.
Distributor	CBS
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	December 20, 1983 (1983-12-20)

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film, originally broadcast on CBS as an annual tradition for more than five years, premiering December 20, 1983. It starred Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury and Polly Holliday. It was produced by Dick Atkins and Michael Lepiner; directed by Academy Award winner Delbert Mann; and written by Earl Hamner, Jr., creator of The Waltons, based on the short story "The Silent Stars Go By" by Bess Streeter Aldrich. The movie was filmed on location in 1983 in Vermont, mainly in Burlington and the charming small town of Chelsea.

Plot

With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important… her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them. And they are, in all the warmth of the holiday. But only when even more seems lost, as one of her children is in jeopardy, does Janet search for that ‘secret place’ where we all may find what really matters, at Christmas and always.

Reviews

"The epitome of this year's Christmas offerings. Will catch at your heart and loosen your tear ducts. If you loved 'It's a Wonderful Life' or 'The Homecoming' you will spend a four-handkerchief night with 'The Gift of Love.' The entire project is a joy." - Newark Star-Ledger

"It's a tale of love, joy, memory and disappointment, put together in a way that will touch your heart." -Albany News

"Lovely performances by Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury... luminous presence of Polly Holliday... make this a special that merits repeating in seasons to come." -Los Angeles Times

External links

Works directed by Delbert Mann

Films	Marty The Bachelor Party Desire Under the Elms Separate Tables Middle of the Night The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Lover Come Back The Outsider That Touch of Mink A Gathering of Eagles Quick, Before It Melts Dear Heart Mister Buddwing Fitzwilly The Pink Jungle Kidnapped Birch Interval Love's Dark Ride Brontë Night Crossing

Television	Lights Out (1949) The Philco Television Playhouse (1949 - 1955) Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951 - 1955) Producers' Showcase (1955) Playwrights '56 (1955 - 1956) Ford Star Jubilee (1956) Omnibus (1956 - 1957) DuPont Show of the Month (1958) Playhouse 90 (1958 - 1959) NBC Sunday Showcase (1959) Startime (1960) Heidi (1968) CBS Playhouse (1968) David Copperfield (1969) Jane Eyre (1970) She Waits (1972) No Place to Run (1972) The Man Without a Country (1973) The First Woman President (1974) The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975) A Girl Named Sooner (1975) Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) Tell Me My Name (1977) Breaking Up (1978) Home to Stay (1978) Tom and Joann (1978) Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978) Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) To Find My Son (1980) Insight (1981) All the Way Home (1981) The Member of the Wedding (1982) The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) A Death in California (1985) The Last Days of Patton (1986) The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1976) Tell Me My Name (1977) Breaking Up (1986) April Morning (1988) Ironclads (1991) Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) Incident in a Small Town (1994) Lily in Winter (1994)

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