![]() Either way, Jean Shepherd’s comedic legacy lives on thanks to A Christmas Story. We’ll never know if his stories stemmed from truth or if everything he wrote was entirely fiction. In December 1973, 33 years after the events of A Christmas Story, Ralphie Parker lives in Chicago with his wife Sandy and two children, Mark and Julie. McInturff as Grover Dill Glenn Shadix as Leopold Doppler, Manager of the Orpheum Theater Roy Brocksmith as Mr. He also took his tales on the road and performed at colleges across the country. Jean Shepherd as Ralph Parker/the Narrator Christian Culkin as Randy Parker Whit Hertford as 'Lug' Chris Owen as 'Scut' Farkus Geoffrey Wigdor as Flick David Zahorsky as Schwartz Tedde Moore as Miss Shields T.J. On Saturdays, Shepherd broadcasted his WOR show in front of a live audience at the Limelight Cafe in Greenwich Village. Shep, as his fans called him, was also a famed lived performer as well. ![]() He also maintained several columns for other publications like Mad Magazine and Car and Driver. ![]() Shepherd told his tales on WOR and published them in Playboy before publishing them as a collection.After In God We Trust, Shepherd wrote three other short story collections. ![]() In God We Trust ultimately inspired the plot of A Christmas Story. Some fans think these stories were semi-autobiographical, although Shepherd claimed they weren’t. Shepherd’s first book of short stories was called In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash). In each tale, an adult Ralph Parker recalls a memory from childhood. ![]() Shepherd, voicing adult Ralphie, states that the air rifle was the best Christmas present he ever received - or would ever receive. TIME used his closing narration in A Christmas Story as an example of Shepherd’s dark humor. ![]()
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