It's the last Christmas together in Depression era Alabama of a sensitive boy and his elderly cousin who was his closest friend. The two raise enough money to buy the ingredients for 30 fruit cakes, sent mostly to strangers like FDR. They spend Christmas day flying the kites the made for each while Capote's voice over explains their separation, followed by their dog's passing, and a few years later hers. /// ABC Stage 67 episode: Award-winning adaptation of Truman Capote's poignant, nostalgic reminiscence about his childhood best friend — a childlike elderly relative with whom he makes fruitcakes and other gifts, in Depression-era Alabama.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1966
12/21/1966
Not Rated
TV Series Episode 51 minutes
A
"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. // "A Christmas Memory" is one of the three stories in this telefilm.This achingly sweet, tender, and sad story is based on Truman Capote's lonely childhood and his friendship with an elderly female cousin (who is unnamed in this story). This story unfolds during the Great Depression years of the 1930s when the two friends plot and plan for Christmas and the making of fruitcakes. They live in a rural house with two other female relatives but stay pretty much to themselves.Counting pennies and nickels and dimes, they scrape togeth
