It's based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of radio personality Jean Shepherd. Many of the characters featured in A Christmas Story were inspired by real-life people and events from ...

Best known as the writer and narrator of the holiday film classic A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) was a celebrated American author, humorist, radio, TV, and film personality, originally ...

Peter Billingsley sits on Santa's lap in a scene from the film 'A Christmas Story', 1983.Archive Photos/Getty Images It made a modest $19 million at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo, and ...

Jean Shepherd's holiday classic "A Christmas Story" is so grounded in his Region childhood it opens with a shot of a steel mill.