You can see Shepherd’s cameo role in the movie. The movie is set in a fictional Indiana town, but was actually filmed in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland and on a sound stage in Toronto, Canada.
The film character Ralphie was inspired by some of Shepherd’s own childhood in Indiana. Shepherd adapted the original short story into the screenplay in 1983, with help from Bob Clark and Shepherd’s wife, Leigh Brown. The story was about a boy who was triple-dog-dared to put his tongue on a metal pole in the middle of winter, and of course immediately got his tongue stuck to it. He was nearly an hour late picking her up because he kept driving around the block until Shepherd finished telling the story. Clark was on his way to pick up his date. The movie version of A Christmas Story was conceivedwhen film director Bob Clark tuned into Shepherd telling a story on a radio station. After a few years he moved to New York where his radio program aired until 1977. He started in Cincinnati in the early 1950’s. He mingled memories from his childhood in Hammond, Indiana with his adventures as the Army Signal Corps to create nearly three decades worth of radio content that delighted and amused his radio audience. Jean Shepherd, writer, humorist, satirist, actor, and radio, television and film personality, had a gift for telling stories. It also owes its existence to a Shepherd radio program Bob Clark heard while driving to pick up his date in Miami. The now popular movie A Christmas Story owes its existence to a short story in Jean Shepherd’s collection, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
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