Posted on 12/21/2010 7:03:44 PM PST by Dallas59
Depression era? WTF?
nah, late forties, early fifties.
He didn’t do gay porn. That was the kid who was bitten in Fright Night.
Flick did straight porn. Still bad, but not as much.
“My Summer Story.”
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I really liked that movie as a sequel to “The Christmas Story”. I found it pretty funny. Guess we all have our own senses of humor. Merry Christmas!
I believe it was set in 1940 or early 41, but it sure had the feel of my childhood and I was born in 47.
Everyone is correct that it is late 30s, and yes, it was still the Depression in the South where I lived. Christmas Story was so like my childhood except we were not “rich” like Ralphie’s family. We were dirt poor, but the social ideas portrayed in the story are very familiar to me.
I’ve got several CDs of Shep’s radio shows. I have lost the link but it wasn’t that hard to find. (Ought to buy some more.) I loved listening to his show on WOR.
Jean Shepard also appears in the film, but very briefly.
It is the scene where Ralphie is getting into line to see Santa at the department store and a gentlemen informs Ralphie that the line to see Santa is way, way, WAY back yonder! That well dressed man is the late Mr. Jean Shepard.
It was set in 1940...
Jean Shepard was the absolute best story teller of his time. My wife & I (we were dating in the late 50’s) would ride around in my car w/friends & listen to his show. He must have been on before midnight because my wife had to be in by then, but my memory ain’t so good.
I hated it in the ‘90s because I saw one scene and thought it was lame, and I found Charles Grodin highly annoying at that point since he had his left-wing talk show. I watched the whole thing recently and liked it. Not as good as A Christmas Story, but still enjoyable. I had the good fortune of seeing Christmas during its original theatrical run.
He must be friends with Favreau, because he also produced Iron Man.
Jean Shephard’s radio shows were played on Pacifica stations before they went full time Communist in the early 1970s.
The movie (my opinion) is poorly directed, low budget, the mom is miscast (what kinda 50s hairdo is that s’posed to be?), and only Shephard’s script, which as I recall is a riot in the radio version, saves it.
You are correct. The Olds had an Indiana 1940 plate, seen very briefly during the tire changing scene.
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