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That’s because Columbus was originally working with screenwriter John Hughes on 1989’s “Christmas Vacation,” starring Chase. Columbus was hired to direct the comedy and …
Jeremiah S. Chechik ended up taking over as director of Christmas Vacation, which was released in December 1989 and made $73 million at the box office. Home Alone came out the following November ...
Chase, 81, played Clark Griswold, patriarch of the Griswold family, who is determined to have a perfect Christmas with his wife and two kids. Naturally, a series of comical miscues throughout the ...
Christmas Vacation was directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, written and co-produced by John Hughes, and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, and Randy Quaid with supporting roles by Miriam Flynn, William Hickey, Mae Questel (in her final film role before her death in 1998), Diane Ladd, John Randolph, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Juliette Lewis ...
In 1989, Chase starred in a sequel to Fletch, Fletch Lives, which went on to gross more than $35 million, [57] and made a third Vacation film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which pulled in $71 million and, thanks to its holiday theme, has become one of his more durable films. [58]
Director Chris Columbus said actor Chevy Chase was so disrespectful to him that he quit 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after he’d begun filming it.. The world is rife ...
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 (also known as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure) is a 2003 American made-for-television comedy film. It is the only film in the Vacation franchise not to star Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as Clark and Ellen Griswold respectively.
The director of Home Alone says he nearly directed another iconic holiday film — National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation — but ultimately left after clashing with the film's star, actor Chevy Chase.