A Christmas Memory - 1966 TV Movie - Geraldine Page, Truman Capote Narrator 

Me Too!!! Love This!!!

@@VernaCunningham-sz9uz I'm about to enjoy it again, 'A Christmas Memory' has become a Christmas tradition in my home! Merry Christmas my friend. X

It is a classic and a constant in our home for the holidays

Ours too - she was tracendant

One should never lose their childlike sense of wonder. When that happens is when one becomes bitter, hateful and angry. Or, as the younger generation would call it, a 'Karen.' I LOVED Truman's description of her at 10:52. And when she said "a person my age shouldn't squander their eyes; when the Lord comes, let me see him clear" I don't mind telling you I teared up.

See... now... you quote that line and we have to cry!!

My family is from the northeast. Close to New York City. Even in the '60's when I came along the world was simpler and kinder than it is today. MY mother, like yours, also made dozens of Christmas cookies to distribute. Everyone LOVED her cookies. She wasn't a well woman. Now in upper middle age and having health issues myself, I wonder how she was able to do it all.

Yes, I remember when it used to be on PBS.

Ours too!

Indeed. The ending breaks my heart every time.

It is, for sure

And another of his Aunts appeared quite regularly on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as the very acerbic Fruitcake Lady.

So happy to have made you (and your friend) happy and so - HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Beautifully Outline!

Frank Perry was a very underrated director...

ABC, who produced this in 1966, failed to archive the original film print, which is why all we had left was a black and white recorded copy that was broadcast for only the second time 20 years later in 1986.

You're most welcome

"Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. She is shocked one day to learn that one of her "babies" is expecting a baby of her own and rejects Miss Miller's offer to be the nurse for the forthcoming child. That night, Miss Miller meets Miriam, a strange young girl who resembles Miss Miller when she was a child. Miriam, critical of everything Miss Miller has or does, constantly taunts her about a loveless existence, leading to a violent confrontation and chilling denouement. "Among The Paths To Eden": Mary O'Meaghan, a spinster, strikes up a conversation in a Queens, New York cemetery with a widower who is putting flowers on his deceased wife's grave. After establishing a modest rapport, Mary reveals to the bemused man that she had come to the graveyard specifically looking for a lonely widower, inasmuch as a friend of hers had found two husbands in a cemetery. "A Christmas Memory": As Christmastime approaches in rural Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for 'people who've struck our fancy'. On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and more frail. -Richard

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