An early look at the life of Truman Capote amazed meĪfter seeing this PBS film on TV as a kid I was skeptical of ever finding it again.Of course, Queenie dies, but not onscreen. Plate reads: 1966-1967 Television Academy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement Truman Capote and Eleanor Perry Adaptation A Christmas Memory ABC. Later released in the anthology film Trilogy (1969) along with two other Capote adaptations by Frank and Eleanor Perry.

Queenie and Page made this film outstanding and emotionally draining. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. And Bud, presumably Capote as a kid, was just along for the emotional ride, the other outstanding character is uncredited Queenie. Although Page is flawless as her usual flexible-faced, poor soul role, the material didn’t allow her to quite make it up to her classic role as Carrie Berniers. A Christmas Memory is the story of two best friends, a seven-year-old boy, called Bud (Donnie Melvin), and his elderly, spinster, cousin Sook, played by Geraldine Page.

It was originally aired as one of the parts of a 1969 TV presentation called Trilogy (The other two being Capote’s short stories Among the Paths to Eden, and Miriam). It is based on a Truman Capote story, but get that out of your mind when you watch it unfortunately, he narrates. A Christmas Memory (1997) is a sweet and sad TV film it is hard to tell which adjective predominates, but I would suggest the latter.

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