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    Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor...
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  • The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise, the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story...
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    Jean Pellissier was a 14th-century shepherd in the Comté de Foix, made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Pellissier was born...
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  • A Christmas Story (category Films based on works by Jean Shepherd)
    and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden...
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  • Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (category Works by Jean Shepherd)
    made-for-television comedy film written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Dick Bartlett, based on the 1968 short story by Shepherd. A satire of childhood recollections...
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    humorist Jean Shepherd on November 17, 1969, wherein he credits Gervais Raoul Lufbery as the inventor. The mixture, as related by Shepherd, is champagne...
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    Hipsters. 2016: "The Man Who Told A Christmas Story. What I learned from Jean Shepherd", Slate. 2016: "Neutron Sunday. In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America...
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  • In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash (category Works by Jean Shepherd)
    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...
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    an episode of the PBS series Jean Shepherd's America, the Chicago-born Jean Shepherd told of how his father (Jean Shepherd, Sr.) and he would watch Chicago...
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  • with a script written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Loxton, the film is the first screen adaptation to feature Shepherd's character Ralphie Parker, and...
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  • "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on any of Jean Shepherd's writings nor is he involved due to his death in 1999. Instead, it has...
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  • name) Jean-Denis Jean-Étienne Jean-François Jean-Henri Jean-Jacques Jean-Louis Jean-Luc Jean-Marc Jean-Marie Jean-Martin Jean-Michel Jean-Pascal Jean-Paul...
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  • rights to much of original author Jean Shepherd's bibliography for use in the film, working several quotes from Shepherd's books into the finished script...
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  • written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Olvia Tappan, the film is the fourth installment in the Ralph Parker franchise. Based on Shepherd's book In God...
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  • My Summer Story (category Films based on works by Jean Shepherd)
    the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by Jean Shepherd, primarily from his book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. The opening...
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  • lacked those revenue streams, and the films are seldom rerun. Raconteur Jean Shepherd produced several television films in the 1970s and 1980s before realizing...
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  • I, Libertine (category Jean Shepherd)
    novel that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd who aimed to lampoon the process of determining best-selling books....
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  • March 12, 1957. The title track features the improvised narration of Jean Shepherd. According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes, Mingus explained why he chose...
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  • written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Olvia Tappan, the film is the second installment in the Ralph Parker franchise. Based on Shepherd's book In God...
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    profile among teen audiences. Another of Dillon's early roles was in the Jean Shepherd PBS special The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters. The...
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    The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest...
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    May 26, 2019. "A Salute to Jean Shepherd". Flick Lives. Retrieved July 10, 2023. ebbergmann (January 21, 2014). "Jean Shepherd—chart—and all that jazz"...
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    In 1982, Shepherd returned to New York and to the stage when she played alongside James MacArthur in a theatre tour of Lunch Hour by Jean Kerr. The following...
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  • Shepherd, American football player Jean Shepherd, American radio personality and writer Jenny Shepherd, New Zealand field hockey player Joel Shepherd...
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  • Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski, a 1985 television film written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Fred Barzyk Starting Over, a 1979 film directed by Alan...
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  • A Christmas Story: The Musical (category Adaptations of works by Jean Shepherd)
    itself based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd,. The musical takes place in the 1940s in Indiana and focuses on a child...
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    of Look Charlie, which was written by her future husband, humorist Jean Shepherd. It opened for three performances in late December 1958 and closed after...
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  • high school rowdy escapades to a close. He instead collaborated with Jean Shepherd on A Christmas Story, which critic Leonard Maltin described as "one...
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    short Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares, an orchestral version of Le jardin féerique plays in the background while Shepherd narrates...
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    1939 (first appearance of Batman).[citation needed] In 1970, humorist Jean Shepherd wrote the introduction for the reprint of The 1929 Johnson Smith & Co...
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