Self, telling the tale.) Shepherd’s radio career spanned four decades,Įnding up at WOR, in New York City. Streetwise voice you hear in the voice-over narration as Ralphie’s adult
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The movie was based on a handful of monologues by the comedic radio “In a way,” Shepherd said, “the movie is about these people, notĬhristmas or Santa Claus.” Storybook Christmas Really gets into it, snorting and plunging his face into his meat loafĪnd mashed potatoes, while he and his mom dissolve into fits of (Ian Petrella), a fussy eater, to pretend he’s a pig at a trough. Still a child at heart, apparent when she encourages her youngest, Randy Threatens to dissolve into creative anarchy. In A Christmas Story, Dillon has a sweetly comedic presence that Small-town American life at the dawn of rampant consumerism.
Provide a good Christmas for his family against the indignities of 1940, Hardscrabble life that made him a believable, hard-boiled dad, trying to Hustling pool games at the age of 12 and was supporting himself at theĪge of 14.” Abandoned by his parents when he was a teen, McGavin had a Screenwriter Jean Shepherd felt that McGavin got the characterĮxactly right. Television-brings just the right amount of gruff tenderness to the
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Series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and in supporting roles in films and McGavin-remembered for his title role in the 1970s television horror With his neighbors’, the Bumpuses’, passel of hound dogs. In the movie-is a perennially grumpy, obscenity-spewing, but lovingĭad who forever does battle with the family’s smoke-belching furnace and Ralphie’s father, Frank Parker-always referred to as “the Old Man” Side, before moving to California and eventually settling in Phoenix. Until Peter was nine, hisįamily of six shared a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East That glory didn’t extend to his descendants. Restaurateur Sherman Billingsley, founder and owner of the Stork Club, aĬenterpiece of café society from speakeasy days through the 1960s. Peter, who grew up in New York City, is related to the bootlegger turned Left, from The Neal Peters Collection Right, by Betty Petrella. Left, Ralphie seeks justice with his Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model air rifle Right, Randy in a bind. In California, and in a couple of other countries,” before they wentīack to their first choice. Gailīillingsley, Peter’s mother, told V.F., “They Thinking Peter perfect for the role but too obvious a choice. York Yankees manager Billy Martin, and promoting video games withīasketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). (appearing as “Messy Marvin” for Hershey’s, selling hot dogs with New Successful child actors in commercials in New York in the 1970s Had become a quintessential Christmas tradition.Ĭlark auditioned 8,000 kids for the role of Ralphie, beginning with theġ2-year-old, bespectacled Billingsley, who was already one of the most Sit around a table, and recite dialogue from every scene. The maître d’ explained that it wasĪ ritual every Christmas Eve for this family to come to the restaurant, Recalled being in a restaurant in New Hampshire when he overheard aįamily at a nearby table speaking what sounded like dialogue from AĬhristmas Story. The movie’s director, Bob Clark, who died in a 2007 car accident, once Natalie Wood, who refuses to believe in Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle. Year-saccharine despite the bracing skepticism of an eight-year-old Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life Miracle on 34th Street the following The 1942 Irving Berlin musical Holiday Inn and its 1954 cousin, WhiteĬhristmas the rather dark 1946 Frank Capra drama starring James
When we think of pre-1983 holiday movies, we think of plum puddings likeĬharles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (the best of several incarnationsīeing the 1951 version, in which Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge) A sleeper of a movie, AĬhristmas Story forever changed the cozy, sentimental holiday-movie In the stock and this thing that tells time. Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model air rifle with a compass Parker’s thwarted desire for a forbidden Christmas present: an official Of A Christmas Story-the now classic film about nine-year-old Ralphie Ralphie seeks justice with his Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model air rifle.
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