Little House on the Prairie - Melissa Anderson Interview 2

[apk1215]

at 3:30 he Max Headrooms out "Do you Remememememember Johnny Johnson?"

[Bestmanme08]

MSA is A hottie!

[Mbraaler09]

She seems so nice on this interview. I saw her last summer at one of her book signings and she had nothing good to say about Melissa Gilbert. She was not close to her nor to Allison Arngrim. She said some bad things about MIchael Landon, too. She's not as nice as this interview portrays her, and it looks like it was done a long time ago.

[TheKohuke]

She stutter littlebit, but she's still wonderful... :)

[tarnsand]

Melissa Sue Anderson sounds very genuine and caring. I think she probably has always been quiet and down to earth in real life; similiar to her TV character as Mary Ingalls. I bet she is a great Mom! And I can not see her being 'nasty' or negative about Melissa Gilbert as was the case in MG's book about Melissa Sue. Different personalities I guess. Thanks for vids:)

[paisleyyama]

Wow she`s older than Melissa Gilbert and it looks like she`s had no plactic surgery, yet if you see Gilbert today she looks like a grandma with all sorts of weird implants and surgery. Anderson went natural and is so much more beautiful.

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

Not really "all the way through"... The blacksmith rapes Silvia...

[gottaloveaz]

Meliss Sue Anderson is 50. Sept 23,1960 and she lives in St.George UT.

[ThePaddyjoejr1]

@gottaloveaz No, September  26, 1962 she will be 49, This year!

[coolbeauty09]

@ThePaddyjoejr1 49 today!

[ThePaddyjoejr1]

@coolbeauty09 Yeah? And Still Hot & Sexy, Too!!

[coolbeauty09]

She is 49 today!

[gottaloveaz]

Sometimes Mary is Nellie.

[NinjaBear567]

I hate Johnny Johnsn!!!!

[JanekBabe]

The real star of the show was karen grassle.

[lasuvidaboy]

Mary was pretty like her mother. Laura no so much.

[hcvang]

you kidding? Gilbert grew up real nice...

[Melisbeth86]

Great interview! Melissa Sue is so beautiful!! :)

[btdtlol7]

I live about 25 minutes from Woodland Hills & 45 minutes from Simi Valley.

[aptharsia]

The interviewers voice is annoying but I loved seeing Melissa Sue!

[dleewhee]

Walnut grove is a real place. The ingall's land is now a camp ground! But the ingall family actually lived the longest in De Smet, south Dakota

[dleewhee]

Actually Mary went away to attend a sch for the blind. After coming home, She lived w her mother and a few short years after her mother's death, Mary too died. Next one to go was grace then Carrie and at the age of 90 Laura passed

[sukashii84]

i love this series

[kdemonde]

In reality Mary Ingalls was blind due to an infection (not Scarlet Fever) she was never married,and she lived out her life with her little sister Carrie and died before her little sisters (Laura, Carrie,& Grace) all around i feel Mary's life was so unfortunate and i do not favor the way Micheal Landon scripted Melissa's character, she was a better actress than Melissa Gilbert but because of the books Melissa Gilbert got top billing. As a fan of the show i guess i'll always have sympathy for Mary

[GreatestSingerEver01]

Knocking Melissa Gilbert to build up Melissa Anderson is ridiculous! Both are incredible people and great actresses. The book is about Laura Ingalls Wilder and Michael Landon had to stay true to that. I happen to think they both are and were... awesome. That is probably my most favorite show of my childhood.

[kdemonde]

Well i respect your opinion but i still feel that Micheal Landon implemented greater hardship for Melissa Sue Anderson's character. In reality Mary Ingalls never had children, but Micheal Landon added a baby for Mary in the storyline FIRST she has a miscarriage THEN she loses her baby tragically in a fire on the show. That is what i mean when i say i didnt favor the way Landon wrote out the script for Mary and that is why i sympathize with her character. Way too many hardships for Mary Ingalls.

[GreatestSingerEver01]

kdemonde - That is an actress' dream to play those difficult parts. "Greater Hardship?" Hardship, that is exactly what an actor/actress wants... it's a tougher role to play... to be able to show her acting ability off. I think the most acting job ever on Little House was when Mary had to face blindness. So, I think the show was fair in every way. Thank God for Michael Landon! He gave us a beautiful program for many years. If we only had that today! God bless you, too, friend.

[kdemonde]

I understand what you are saying, however i still do not agree with the overextended hardship Melissa's character had to endure. Why did'nt Micheal Landon implement these scripted scenarios upon Melissa Gilbert's character? Ok she lost a baby as well but her setbacks do not compare with her older sisters setbacks. Well that is just my opinion. I love Little House and i still watch it today but i just have a problem with the Mary character and the "fictional" Albert character as well...Albert???

[1simaddict1]

@kdemonde I don't think Melissa Sue was a better Actress than Melissa Gilbert. Mel G was younger, but I think she had more range. She could pull off the comedy and the drama. Mel A was good a drama and I think sometimes overacted a tad bit. She made Laura seem stuck up. I don't if she was supposed to, but that's how I saw it. Mel G made Laura seem believable. But I don't think Mel A could pull off playing Laura and Mel G couldn't pull off playing Mary.

[JanekBabe]

Didn`t she play the role of Mary Ingalls, yes she did.

[missxradio]

Actually, Walnut Grove IS a real place (for the person in Australia). I have talked to people from Mankato Minnesota, and I passed through the area that Laura was born. It remains small town today.

[Gerogiancounty]

Walnut place is a real place no doubt but I am not too sure that folks there are as friendly as those in the show

We have lots of Walnut groves here down under but you need to accept some furry jumpy friends dropping by to say hello though :)

[missxradio]

Haven't you all noticed that slapping Nellie didn't make her change her nasty ways? It rarely does.

[missxradio]

No 'may be' about it. o, I don't think it would be more 'interesting' to see Mary fight and be mean. Read the books and all the acct's of Mary. As far as 'goody' being boring, if that were true the Little House books never would remain bestsellers 80 + yrs later! Ha, you have proven my point by saying tv must be 'violent' to be 'interesting'.

Don't tell me about tv, remember, I work in tv .

[missxradio]

"People help each other"  ha! Not in Cleveland I walked and limped badly many times, on crutches at work and elsewhere and NO ONE helped! Find me this town to live in! 1:54

[Gerogiancounty]

If you come to my town , I would have carried you but only if you allow me to :)

Walnut Grove is real only to folks who want to believe it

[missxradio]

They even look a bit alike, the mother and daughter.. great casting there!

[paligirl240]

does anyone know what year this was? thanks!!

[akagenki]

this first aired in 2006

[paligirl240]

Thank you so much!

[akagenki]

You're welcome! :)

[SeattleGuy1968]

2:49 I don't believe Alison Arngrim was more shy than Melissa Sue Anderson - Alison speaks FAR more fluid sentences than Melissa Sue by FAR....watch my video of Alison (Nasty Nellie) and compare their speech!

[missxradio]

Seattle Guy.. Alison friended me on fbook.

[lhotpgirl]

Which episode- 7:20-7:23?

[sparxstreak02]

what ep is the 1 where Mary slaps nellie at 3:27? does any1 know?

[cricket34]

"The Handyman" - the episode where Ma hires some man to help build the new edition to the house while Pa is away on a trip.

[missxradio]

I got through my WHOLE 12 yrs of school without slapping anyone in the face.. CAN SOMEONE ASK HER WHY SHE PLAYED MARY SO M EAN AND WITH SUCH AN ATITUDE? ! Why would the writers do that?! The Real Mary Ingalls was the exact opposite..

[sparxstreak02]

that may b true but u have 2 remember that books tell the truth more often than TV, plus they have 2 make it interesting & unexpected, making Mary slap nellie gives her more backbone, & thats plenty more interesting than a behaved goody-2 shoes dont u think, besides nellie deserved that slap as she was being an incredibly rude, crude, disrespectful BITCH!

[laminage]

When of the things that I admire about the kids from this "show" is the fact that none of them got messed up like so many child stars over the years. Michael Landon should be given "props" for that because although he was strict, he was fair and when the kids weren't on the show, they had to study because school to him was very important.

[UnBuenPerro]

It's curious how she refersto "Nelly" as a shy girl, when I saw the Casting Director of the show saying they chosed her because she was so funny and loooved being Nelly. Maybe it was just Mellisa's perception when she was still a child. She seems more likely to be shy than "Nelly".

[dmodlin71]

One of my favorite episodes is the one where Mary is studying for that test and starts the fire in the "barn" (I always thought that tiny barn/shed building was funny.) It's the only one where I would probably cry at the end (as opposed to the fact that almost every ep. has crying in it, haha.)

I didn't like Mary post-blindness - they made her so pathetic and whiny. And all the blind students always just looked like space cadets on tranquilizers - with those catatonic stares!

[rbs2013]

that episode was called the award

[sonyab1974]

She was not pathetic and whiney. She went blind and was angry about it. She hated being in the blind school at first. The blind students are blind and did a great job at conveying that.

[moose2cool]

thanks for sharing the interview.