25 Behind the Scenes Facts of A Christmas Story

[@beauwalker9820]

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

[@TheIcecaps]

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

[@mightylonesome9426]

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.

[@mikehaslam5732]

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]

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

[@alexmeyer5260]

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]

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

[@alexmeyer5260]

@@SynthD I don't know.

[@voicevitality7197]

Darin McGavin was a better choice than Jack Nicholson anyway.

[@tinawarner8862]

Yes I was just thinking that

[@alexmeyer5260]

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

[@matildarenshaw2175]

I Cant wait till christmassss

[@megm9186]

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

[@matildarenshaw2175]

@@megm9186 same lol

[@adrielbearden4060]

We’re almost there!!!!

[@Littlebodies4bighearts]

3 days till Christmas

[@shauncassidy5437]

two days

[@wxguy60]

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]

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.

[@RKusmie64]

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

[@Unknown_User174]

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.

[@glendapeterson1180]

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.

[@nickp2271]

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.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Amazing how all these details have surfaced.

[@doubledrats235]

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.

[@xandersin44]

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

[@shauncassidy5437]

true

[@Sauc3vlog]

True

[@MegaSwiming]

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

[@rawbacon]

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

[@wandaarnt234]

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

[@robertkees6048]

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.

[@majorpayne100]

RIP 🪦 Bob Clark and Darren McGavin

[@opalthegoofygolden2413]

When my mom was a kid she met Peter Billingsley

[@parkereaston]

Cool I wish I met him

[@clatcusandbobbett9938]

Wow that is amazing!!

[@dora1980]

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.

[@missyc5627]

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.

[@Alloy-p3u]

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

[@wonkotheclown]

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

[@K4NDYK0RE]

same, but im in cleveland

[@MrLacindav]

Loved the video thx 🙏 for the facts

[@kimackerman2183]

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?🎄

[@dmprdctns]

Well done... Thanks...

[@Manuelmartinez-jq8bk]

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

[@jayloveden23]

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

[@ffjsb]

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]

Oh gosh

[@alexmeyer5260]

@@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.

[@matildarenshaw2175]

I love these videos!!!!

[@scifibri2376]

I actually did guess right on his age lol!

[@jakeknapp6833]

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

[@jakeknapp6833]

Oh about the elf

[@kam0406]

My favorite ❤

[@1justiceisgod]

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

[@SynthD]

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.

[@ZeStY_gOoBeR69]

Good re up load I liked the video

[@28mark]

I can only imagine Jack Nicholson eventually chasing the family around the neighborhood with a bat or an axe.

[@neilpayton]

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

[@swiftvideoable8070]

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

[@FunFactFilms]

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.

[@wxguy60]

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

[@gavinsisak]

I did

[@michellefortune3225]

Cool

[@sebastianshow9065]

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

[@randomizedartman00]

I got it right!

[@melissaphilip5650]

i went to the house this movie was filmed in

[@dorenedarabaris2111]

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

[@c_alford2011]

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

[@bandcouver]

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

[@Izunkooo23]

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

[@lissadawes4243]

1:58 lol I thought it was intentional!

[@garrettkennedy6349]

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

[@emmaobrien2029]

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

[@nancyphillips4001]

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

[@dmk7700]

A "NEO CLASSIC"

[@kevinbejkoxdxd1514]

Peter billingsley was 12 when this movie was made

[@sebastianshow9065]

Yeah that's cool!

[@carriethompson1479]

12 for peter

[@jakeknapp6833]

Peter billingsley was 12 at the time

[@robbychaney9376]

Why is the movie mirrored?

[@WyattGloverTV]

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

[@FunFactFilms]

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

[@koconnor56]

5 more days

[@majorpayne100]

Jack Nicholson wouldn’t fit the part anyway

[@gwyn1535]

i knew it peter was 12

[@Saskinny]

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

[@Beansvr619]

Peter Billingsley was 12 years old

[@Poland-i4z]

Was Peter 12?

[@1977eliu]

give a like if you love christmas

[@meredithbenjamin6694]

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. 😄

[@rileybusse9351]

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

[@kaitlynkeczely4351]

I think Peter was 11 years old

[@jocelynbialk4635]

Peter was 12 years old

[@clookie7611]

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

[@MrJeep75]

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

[@clookie7611]

@@MrJeep75 he's older than my mom

[@destiniutley45623]

I think Peter is 14 years old

[@matthewmcclure597]

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

[@MrJeep75]

He was 12yrs old

[@Kevzippy88]

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

[@randomizedartman00]

He was 12?

[@mamaof5561]

13 is how old he is

[@سوسوحلبية-غ5ي]

I think 13

[@richardmcgowan8854]

Peter was thirteen years old.

[@FunFactFilms]

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]

@Richard McGowan i love your profile pic🤣😅

[@stranger2581]

Yo I got it right it was 12years old

[@jessandstevebillings430]

22?

[@nikkiwoodland4545]

I think 94

[@midnightmoon1323]

7-8

[@josephfoley8572]

he was 19

[@c_alford2011]

Peter was 12

[@K4NDYK0RE]

he does NOT look 12.

[@allison3093]

I meant 9

[@Jakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

12 Years old

[@thekidjbot899]

I think it was 13

[@MrJeep75]

12yrs old

[@billygamezgtaandmore3283]

Peter was 13

[@MrJeep75]

12

[@shellbacksclub]

has anyone even heard of the tv show REAL PEOPLE?😕

[@lizolson5043]

11?

[@jonathannelson209]

Nicholson would have ruined the movie

[@booabrams-bickel8181]

12 years old

[@bryce_god_1243]

I guess hw was 12

[@jacksonnuernberg9076]

I think he was 12

[@number1reimufan]

billy is 17

[@michellefortune3225]

I think he is12

[@megm9186]

If he's 12 playing in 9 year old that's not that old I thought he was 10 that's on me3 years older then9

[@sebastianshow9065]

HEY!: Your 12 3 more older.

[@zasy197]

Is he 12 ?

[@harrysalter3614]

It’s 12

[@nancyphillips4001]

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