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A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
Star Peter Billingsley at a screening of "A Christmas Story Christmas" in 2022. Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images The first theatrical sequel, "My Summer Story," was released in 1994, and was once ...
Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, [1] 1921 – October 16, 1999) [2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories.
The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise, [1] the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story franchise), [2] [3] is a collection of American family-comedies based upon the stories of author Jean Shepherd.
It's pretty hard to believe that A Christmas Story wasn't an instant sensation.Still more unbelievable is that it's been nearly 40 years since the adorable Ralphie Parker first stole our hearts.
Director Bob Clark reportedly scouted 20 different cities in the early 1980s to find a location for the house from A Christmas Story.Clark also sent letters to 100 department stores around the ...
Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. [22] The five short stories that were used as the basis for A Christmas Story were collected under the title A Christmas Story and published as a stand-alone book in 2003. [23]
Fans of the movie can catch up with the Parkers on Nov. 17, when the long-awaited sequel, A Christmas Story Christmas, arrives on HBO Max. The plot is that adult Ralphie's father has now died, and ...