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Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, [1] 1921 – October 16, 1999) [2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted on the basis of his own semi-autobiographical stories.
Jean Shepard was all that and more." [18] Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann further explained that she was an exception due to her being a single woman: "Jean Shepard's achievement is all the more remarkable because she was the only early-1950s country music woman who made it on her own." [51]
The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise, [1] the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story franchise), [2] [3] is a collection of American family-comedies based upon the stories of author Jean Shepherd.
When “A Christmas Story” premiered in 1983, screenwriter Jean Shepherd pulled antidotes from his own life to create the Christmas comedy — including the infamous leg lamp.
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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash is a collection of short stories by American humorist Jean Shepherd.It was first published in October 1966. A best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important published work. The work inspired several films in the
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski is an American made-for-television family-comedy film, directed by Fred Barzyk, with a script written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Olvia Tappan, the film is the fourth installment in the Ralph Parker franchise .
Jean Shepherd used the show as the basis for his short story "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or The Asp Strikes Again." In the story, first-person narrator Ralphie Parker is an avid listener of the program and eagerly awaits the arrival of his decoder ring to find out the secret messages in each episode.