Ever notice every kid in this movie is a better actor then most Disney Channel & Nickelodeon sitcoms?

Christmas Movie is a Classic and will never go out of style

Darren McGavin had perfect comedic timing. The expressions on his face are worth a thousand words. I binge watched Night Stalker a while back. It's a shame that it only aired for one season.

Will never turn down a chance to learn facts about this MOVIE!! Bob Clark, thank you for this wonderful movie that to this day my wife & kids watch every time around Christmas. Amen to that

@shannonburninhell8906

2 жыл бұрын

Who. Cares, it's, just. Another. Crack. House

Peter Billingsley was actually given real tobacco to chew by the props guy for the Black Bart scene. However, Peter had no idea it was real tobacco, assuming it was fake, as the props guy never admitted it was real. Within 15 minutes of chewing it, he became sick and started throwing up midway through filming. When the props guy admitted to giving Peter real tobacco, director Bob Clark was understandably furious. They had to shut down filming for almost an hour so that Peter could get the rest of the tobacco out of his system, and the props team immediately went to work creating fake tobacco by using a bunch of raisins, which is ultimately what we see in the actual film.

@SynthD

5 ай бұрын

Why not just use that shredded beef jerky? Was that not a thing back then?

@alexmeyer5260

5 ай бұрын

@@SynthD I don't know.

RIP 🪦 Bob Clark and Darren McGavin

Unlike Ralphie, my grandson LOVED the bunny suit I made him for Christmas year before last! So much so, that he wanted to wear it to the zoo on Easter :-D

Darin McGavin was a better choice than Jack Nicholson anyway.

@tinawarner8862

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I was just thinking that

@alexmeyer5260

2 жыл бұрын

@@tinawarner8862 Jack Nicholson's reaction to things like the furnace wouldn't have been as funny anyway.

I Cant wait till christmassss

@megm9186

3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait till Christmas Eve other I mean Christmas

@matildarenshaw2175

3 жыл бұрын

@@megm9186 same lol

@adrielbearden4060

3 жыл бұрын

We’re almost there!!!!

@Fearstreet1978

3 жыл бұрын

3 days till Christmas

@shauncassidy5437

3 жыл бұрын

two days

More facts! Looking at the Christmas house from the street, the house on the right burnt down a few years ago but no damage to the Christmas house. The museum is across the street. In the scene in the department store waiting in line to see Santa, Randy looks off camera and smiles for a second as he looks at his real mom off set. Ralphies favorite scene was the Chinese restaurant scene.

@petrovretz

3 жыл бұрын

More facts! Looking at the Christmas house from the street, the house on the right burnt down a few years ago but no damage to the Christmas house. The museum is across the street. In the scene in the department store waiting in line to see Santa, Randy looks off camera and smiles for a second as he looks at his real mom off set. Ralphies favorite scene was the Chinese restaurant scene.

A Christmas Story had characters from The Wizard of Oz because it was an MGM film. And now, both movies are owned by Warner Bros.

I've seen this movie many times but never knew that both the director and the author made cameos in the film. I'm so glad that I now know that tidbit so I can look for it this Christmas. I always watch the movie one time only each Christmas during the 24 showing of the film. Oh yeah, and at least a few minutes of the "Yule Log" that originated on WPIX tv when I was a kid.

Amazing how all these details have surfaced.

Love A CHRISTMAS STORY cheers from Pennsylvania 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎄🎄🎄

I’m watching this 3 days till Christmas 🎄

I first heard Shep on WOR 710 AM in NY IN 1969. I then found out that my father and grandfather listened to him. I remember sneaking out of my aunts’s house with my dad to sit in our Plymouth in the cold night and listen to him tell this story on the car radio. I continued listening to his show on WOR until it was cancelled for good in 1977.

The funny thing is I never thought Darren McGavin was anything special as an actor yet he beyond perfect as "The Old Man".

Peter Billingsley actually was in the movie Elf as Ming Ming the elf

@shauncassidy5437

3 жыл бұрын

true

@Sauc3vlog

3 жыл бұрын

True

@MegaSwiming

2 жыл бұрын

Yep and four Christmas as the ticket argent at the s Airport

When my mom was a kid she met Peter Billingsley

@parkereaston

3 жыл бұрын

Cool I wish I met him

@clatcusandbobbett9938

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that is amazing!!

@dora1980

3 жыл бұрын

Your mom is very lucky.Peter is not only an actor. He has done everything in the film industry. Actor, producer, director. He has even done documentaries and a Broadway version of A Christmas story. He was an executive producer in the 2008 Iron man.And he looks very good after all those years. He hasn't changed much, he's a handsome man who managed to stay out of drugs and alcohol abuse and he's still very successful.

I watched a video that said anytime you saw the curtains open in the house, it was actually filmed in the house. When they were closed, it was filmed on a sound stage.

Loved the video thx 🙏 for the facts

Can't believe this movie is considered a Christmas classic and is popular among kids 😮

I love these videos!!!!

I watched this movie for the first time like a week ago and it was so fun and charming, also no wonder I found the guy in Elf similar to Ralphie😄 can you do more Christmas movies like Arthurs Christmas or Rise of the Guardians?🎄

I still find it crazy that my favourite Christmas movie was filmed in my home city City: Toronto

@starmothhh

3 жыл бұрын

same, but im in cleveland

Well done... Thanks...

I love 💕 this movie I was 5 years old when this movie came out in 1983

Another fun fact about the actor of Scott Farkus Zack Ward is that his mother Pam Hyatt voiced Kaede in Inuyasha until Linda Darlow took over for the role in Inuyasha The Final Act and Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon.

Thanks for the update and will be back to work on Monday and will be back in the office tomorrow and will

I jump with joy every time I read about how the great cinema critics disliked this movie. Good example of how tuned into America they really are. They don't know anything about movies, either.

My favorite ❤

Who about the elf lady who carried Ralph or was actually a neighbor or friend of one of my former teachers who retired

@jakeknapp6833

2 жыл бұрын

Oh about the elf

I actually did guess right on his age lol!

Cool

I still want to know how they did the effect when the dad plugs in too many devices and causes the arching that blows a fuse. I legit think they just did it for real.

Me to my kids and husband set up the Christmas tree like a week ago.

Ralphie was originally given real chewing tobbacco for the scene with Black Bart, but became sick from it and they had to stop filming for a couple of hours.

@OfficialPanda339

3 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh

@alexmeyer5260

2 жыл бұрын

@@OfficialPanda339 They could NEVER get away with doing that today. However, that was the fault of the props guy, not the director. In fact, when director Bob Clark learned what the props guy had done, he was furious.

Good re up load I liked the video

omg yesterday i was looking for this video and now its reuploaded

I got it right!

1:58 lol I thought it was intentional!

Darin Mcgavin was a better choice than Jack Nicholson Anyway but I LOVE THE ACTORS! (To play the dad)

I feel bad for the kid going down the slide but I would have loved going down it but I think it would have been funnier if there was a trapdoor that the kids fall through XD

If I recall from the original upload, Peter Billingsley was 13 but his character was like 9

@FunFactFilms

3 жыл бұрын

Yup you remembered correctly, but last year I found out that he was actually 12 when someone told me to check his birth year. Peter mentioned the wrong age in the DVD audio commentary which is where I got the fact from.

It looks like most of the clips are reversed. You all need to go to the house and museum in Cleveland.

@gavinsisak

3 жыл бұрын

I did

A "NEO CLASSIC"

2:35 It shows Disney costumes from like the 60s, 70s, or 80s but it takes place in 1940 and the Disney costumes from when Disneyland opened in 1955 were weird and creepy

12 for peter

They also forgot about the scene where they were in the Chinese restaurant and chopped the duck's head off. The mom didn't know they were going to do that so her reaction was real

i went to the house this movie was filmed in

Did you know that Ralphie was in elf the elves named Buddy

@emmaobrien2029

3 жыл бұрын

he was the head elf (i literally just watched his ELF video) 🤣

And Anna I love that movie I like my favorite way around and I’m not a grown-up I’m like six so I love the Christmas movie and my grandma loved it

Why is the movie mirrored?

5 more days

Peter billingsley was 12 at the time

Can you do a fun fact video on The Santa Clause 2?

@FunFactFilms

3 жыл бұрын

It's a possibility. Thanks for the suggestion Wyatt👍

7-8

He was 12yrs old

Peter billingsley was 12 when this movie was made

@sebastianshow9065

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's cool!

I think 13

This is the good one. Not the horrible, abominable sequel or the gawd awful musical.

Peter Billingsley was 12 years old

i knew it peter was 12

I think 94

I meant 9

The video is not mirrored and it’s all backwards a little bit

Peter was 12 years old

Ummm.....all these facts can be known from IMDB.COM and the DVD Special Featyres.......LOL!

12 years old

12

86

25

he was 19

22?

5

I guess hw was 12

40

14

I assume he was 10 at the time. Ten was also the age to get a B B gun.,. Oops I was wrong. Well. He looked ten. 😄

20

Yo I got it right it was 12years old

Was Peter 12?

I think Peter was 11 years old

11?

9

11.

Peter Billingsley was 12 he played Ralphie in a Christmas story in 1983 what do you mean he was older he looked 12 he always did

10

13 is how old he is

6

12 Years old

I think he was 12 or 10 when he made the movie as ralphie or Ralph

@MrJeep75

2 жыл бұрын

He was born in 1971 12yrs old playing a 9yr old

@clookie7611

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrJeep75 he's older than my mom

Peter was thirteen years old.

@FunFactFilms

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought at first because Peter Billingsley said in the DVD audio commentary that he was 13. But when I posted the first version of this video several people pointed out to me in the comments that 13 isn 't right because he was born in 1971 and the movie was released in 1983, making him 12 at the time.

@ansleykate9482

3 жыл бұрын

@Richard McGowan i love your profile pic🤣😅

I think it was 13

@MrJeep75

2 жыл бұрын

12yrs old

He was 12?

I think the movie A Christmas Story Christmas they should have got the original all the original actors if they can't get the original actors in a second movie they shouldn't make it

I think Peter is 14 years old

13 years old

@MrJeep75

2 жыл бұрын

12

It’s 12

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