A Christmas Icon:
Celebrating Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd’s “An American Christmas”
broadcast December 25, 1963
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Mister Jean Parker Shepherd born on July 26, 1921 on the south side of Chicago and raised in Hammond, Indiana. He is best known to modern audiences for the film A Christmas Story which he narrated, and co-scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories which were broadcast on the radio station WOR in New York City starting in 1956 and continued weekly until 1977.
A Christmas Story – Original Trailer 1983
“Fragile” that must be Italian!!! my son David’s number one Xmas movie of all time. you gotta know we own this! how ’bout the scene when his tongue gets stuck on the metal pole? the entire film is pure genius!!! we have a guy in my hood who puts the nylon high heeled leg lamp on in his window during the Xmas season. my kind of humor indeed, girl. you know me so well.
The scene with the kid brother and the snow suit, that happened to me as a kid. I fell down and couldn’t get back up on the way to school! Hilarious. “You can put your arms down when you get to school”.
His radio show from 1963 is more of the same wit, social commentary and observation of human nature.
Take a picture of the nylon high heeled lamp in your neighbor’s window for me please!!