A Christmas Story

Celebrity Profiles

The Dad, Mr. Parker, is intended to be a young father in his late 20s to early 30s. In the 1940s setting, he is a new dad navigating parenthood with humor and weariness. The fil...

Film Props & Set Design

The leg lamp in A Christmas Story is roughly 4 feet (about 1.2 meters) tall. This measurement aligns with on-screen comparisons to human scale and production notes that describe...

biography

Tedde Moore is best known for playing Miss Shields, the teacher of Ralphie Parker in the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story. Her performance as the composed yet firm educator i...

Celebrity Profiles

Ralphie Parker is the young protagonist in the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story , portrayed by actor Peter Billingsley. As a nine-year-old boy in 1940s Indiana, Ralphie dream...

Film & Media

A Christmas Story is a classic holiday film that originated from the 1966 book The Little Christmas Tree by Jean Shepherd and the 1979 semi-autobiographical book In God We Trust...

Film Visual Analysis

This visual guide to A Christmas Story pictures presents definitive, evergreen reference material about the film’s most iconic stills, behind-the-scenes production photography...

holiday-film

This evergreen profile outlines the principal cast of A Christmas Story and how each character contributes to the film’s nostalgic portrait of childhood longing and family rit...

status_and_profile

Peter Billingsley, the actor who played Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story, is alive and currently active as a producer and occasional actor. In recent years he has focused on...