However, the quest for the BB gun at Christmas was its own separate story. Director Bob Clark took some stories from Shepherd’s book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and used those stories for A Christmas Story. Born on the Southside of Chicago, Shepherd grew up in Hammond, Indiana, and was an avid White Sox fan.
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A Christmas Story is a series of vignettes based on stories by author and radio personality, Jean Shepherd. In 2006, the house was opened to the public as a museum and gift shop.ĩ. Jones spent $350,000 to restore both the exterior and interior of the house so that it was an exact replica of the home in the film. The home was bought on eBay in 2005 for $150,000 by superfan of the movie, Brian Jones. The house from the film is located at 3159 W. He was the Executive Producer of Iron Man in 2008. As a good friend of Vince Vaughn’s, Billingsley also executive produced Four Christmases (which he had a cameo in), The Break-Up, and the TBS sitcom Sullivan & Son.Ĩ. Although he doesn’t act very often, Billingsley has done quite well for himself. Billingsley has done more than you think since A Christmas Store. Peter Billingsley still owns the iconic pink bunny suit and BB gun, and the glasses that get broken after he “shoots his eye out” were his own.ħ. Peter Billingsley kept famous memorabilia from filming. Finally, the wall calendar hanging in the kitchen shows December 1 falling on a Friday, which occurred in 1939.Ħ.
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However, other movie fanatics claim it takes place in 1940 because of Ralphie’s Orphan Annie radio decoder pin which was the 1940 “Speedomatic” model. The reference about an upcoming football game between the Bears and the Packers leads people to believe 1941 because the two teams met in a playoff game on December 14, 1941.
There has been a lot of debate about whether the movie takes place in 1939, 1940, or 1941.
No one can figure out exactly when the movie takes place.
“He was weird and we used him just as he was,” said Billingsley.ĥ. On the DVD commentary, Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) says that Bob Clark, who directed A Christmas Story, saw the kid and thought he would be a good addition to the scene. The department store kid with the goggles wasn’t an actor, just a local kid.
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