Southern Belle I recall a couple years after the show ended. In a interview Melissa Anderson admitted that she wasn’t really involved in friendships with the other kids on the show. She was pretty much carted away by her mother. Like she didn’t sit with the other kids during class time she sat alone in the last row, or if they where setting up the next shot and Laura and Nelly would sit and eat together or would be playing something Mary wouldn’t join in. She would sit alone with her mom and eat or do something alone. For birthdays they would have sleepovers Mary never came. Her parent and mother in particular were VERY OVER PROTECTIVE. She said she felt very left out. And bad because she could never participate because her mother always gave the excuse of fear of her getting hurt or her Asthma would act up. Poor kid she was very sheltered.
I grew up with this wonderful televisionserie, I loved every episode of it. Great actors! The freedom, the space where they lived, the honesty, the family feeling, the community.
what a smart, bright, woman. listening to her is easy, because she communicates well, and remembers so much. i remember the evil teen aged witch she played in a tv movie, circa 1981 or so....she was badass!
This really does make one appreciate the comforts of 2020. We have so much. Yet our values have suffered. Wanting a dictionary shows how humble of a time this was. I'm not oblivious to mistakes made in America during the time with other cultures, but that hasn't entirely changed. The values have dissipated
I was living in Simi Valley at the time th😂 show was filmed there. One day a year they would open the set to the public. My daughters really enjoyed seeing the cabin and the other buildings in the set. I remember seeing Melissa walking around the Topanga Mall one day.
@@loveshell6945 based on what practically all the kids on the show and some who have appeared on the show have said about Melissa Sue. She was the Nellie Olsen of the set.
Melissa Sue Anderson was always my favorite character on the show. I also liked the character of Ma Ingalls. I pretty much liked them all, but these two were my favorites.
I think Melissa sue Anderson is brilliant as Mary ingalls, Mary goes through so much but she is so strong! For an actor to play a blind person must be hard but she did so well ! I love this tv series, I am only on season 4 but I love it so much don't make t.v. like this anymore !
@TheJohnlennongirl she actually has written a book called The Way I See It;A Look Back At My Life on Little House. In fact the three of them (Melissa Sue, Melissa G and Alison) all had books published this year.
I absolutely Love Little House on the Prarie!! When I was little my cousin and ai would lay little house on the prarie my cousin would be "Mary' because she had long blonde hair and I was "Laura 'because I had long brown hair and Id braid it into two braid's
Mrs Whipple, Queenie Smith comes from the 1930s style of acting... those early 30s movies, were very quick-talking, and a lot of dialog in a short time!
dej353 the realest bitches are the two who called her a bitch. The fact she doesn’t come down to their level shows how different she is than them . They remind me like the two stepsisters of Cinderella . Trashing her doesn’t make them look better in my opinion ,
she looks and has the sweet polite mannerisms as my sister-in-law Ann. My sister in law Ann We call each other Sistah Sledge. She has the same eyes..My sister in law has these deep ocean green eyes ..They look like sisters..I love my sister in law
KingofPepsi Lol I think they dubbed his voice in after. Maybe his audio wasn’t very good on their tape so he had to voice over in editing. Or maybe the reporter doing has a bad voice for interviews. Idk the real answer but it sounded good.
Seb she and Melissa Gilbert were simply jealous cause she was simply beautiful while they were average looking ( not ugly of course but not Nearly As beautiful as her ) . Also the fact she was reserved ..... being reserved is not a flaw , not everyone has to be a clown like Alison is in her interview .
@@salvolondon Melissa Sue was cold and mean. The guy that played John Jr said so. Even Karen Grasso said MSA gave her the cold shoulder and was difficult to get to know.
I wore glasses in 1964, and nobody made fun of people in school who wore glasses...I don't know what kind of school you attended, but it wasn't like that here...
When she speaks about how they didn't give her more to do on Little House it's not true most episodes were actually about Mary and her boyfriends or illnesses. I've been watching reruns a lot lately and noticed they focused a lot on Mary's character so I think she may need to revisit that. Still love Mary anyway.
is both melissa friends today?? is there some interview were melissa gilbert talks about melissa sue/missy?? plz message me.or who is friends with who now..i know dean butler and him john carter,remain friends tho
It doesn't sound like it. Melissa Gilbert is best friends yet with Alison and sees Lindsay and Sidney from time to time. But doesn't stay in contact with Melissa Anderson. (nor her own brother Jonathon for that matter....by his choice)
@@salvolondon Not at all. First it is not known who doesn’t want to see who and secondly you can be a wonderful person but not want to see some family member for a good reason.
F Joseph Gonzales the fact that the two of them trashed her says it all . Melissa she Anderson didn’t do the same in her book . People who trash others are always in the wrong compared to people who are not vindictive towards them
Based on both sides of the story being heard, I think Melissa Gilbert was probably hard to work with as she got older. Melissa Gilbert has had a few estranged relationships with people. Melissa has not seen or talked to her brother Jonathan who played Willie in years. I think he abandoned his whole family shortly after Little House ended. She also cut ties with Michael Landon for years as well and didn’t talk to him outside of work. It took his diagnosis with cancer for her to reconcile with him. She also can’t stand the girl who played Jenny Wilder because she copied her a lot. Melissa Sue Anderson was sheltered by her strict parents growing up and wasn’t allowed to have any friends outside of work except Michael Landon. I think that’s why Melissa Gilbert said they didn’t get along very well. Plus like Melissa Sue Anderson said in the interview they had to compete for screen time I guess. I think Melissa Gilbert has issues since a lot of people she worked with she doesn’t like or isn’t close with them anymore. Feel bad for her though since her dad killed himself when she was 11 and her brother has nothing to do with her. But I think she might have been tough to work with.
Oh, PLEASE. Do your research. The TV Little House series had as little to do with the reality these historical figures faced in the late 1800s as the automated watering system that was used on the set in Simi Valley to make the slopes green had to do with actually living w/o indoor plumbing, as much of our planet CONTINUES to do. Anderson was a very competent child/adolescent actor, no question. But to compare the fantasy Landon produced for our TVs and our wallets as fact is as specious as saying everyone in the US *currently* has access to safe water, public education, etc. In real life Charles Ingalls was an unsuccessful itinerant farmer who, tragically, had to cope with both natural disasters and the rapidly changing politics of that time. He was only lifted out of poverty by his daughter, Laura, once she had done the same for her husband, her child, and herself after she became an adult. In real life after Mary Ingalls became blind due to an illness (NOT genetics) Mary had zero/ few options beyond living w/ her parents until their deaths, then living w/ a younger sister until Mary’s death. Blindness at that time was a major financial liability for almost all in North America. Marriage was out of the question. Every farm the real Charles Ingalls started failed. He packed up his family and left the state in the middle of the night at least twice per public records b/c he was defaulting on his bills. As an adult Laura was far more financially successful, rewriting a fair amount of her family history to be more palatable to the newly created youth book market in the early 1900s. The TV show was safe and entertaining for those of us who grew up watching it. I have no expectations that any of the child actors to understand what happened to the historical characters they represented. However, listening to Ms Anderson’s total focus on herself and her role in this TV show, often excluding or ignoring the perspectives of others, and her failure to read a single book about the real Ingalls family, while extolling the show as being an accurate representative of Western European pioneer life is as embarrassing to her as to all those in North America who actually researched the history of the works that gave her this platform.
So enjoyed this interview. Melissa seems like such a lovely person. Little House is iconic and I still love watching it .
Southern Belle
I recall a couple years after the show ended. In a interview Melissa Anderson admitted that she wasn’t really involved in friendships with the other kids on the show. She was pretty much carted away by her mother. Like she didn’t sit with the other kids during class time she sat alone in the last row, or if they where setting up the next shot and Laura and Nelly would sit and eat together or would be playing something Mary wouldn’t join in. She would sit alone with her mom and eat or do something alone. For birthdays they would have sleepovers Mary never came. Her parent and mother in particular were VERY OVER PROTECTIVE. She said she felt very left out. And bad because she could never participate because her mother always gave the excuse of fear of her getting hurt or her Asthma would act up. Poor kid she was very sheltered.
@@maryallison0509 Melissa Sue Anderson was also nasty and mean to the other kids. She was the real Nellie Olsen.
@@Diostillrocks I find that very hard to believe.
@@sunnyskies-md5rk find what hard to believe?
Melissa Sue Anderson is in my top 10 of the most beautiful women ever seen on TV.
She is so pretty. And her eyes are amazing. Loved this show growing up. Great interview.
I loved Little House and still watch all the time. I loved Mary! She was so good.
I love Little House on the Prairie. I still watch the reruns. 😁
I can't find it.
good to see her slap boys and girls.
@@laurenmontera9516 You can find all of them on DVD. 😊
I just love Melissa Sue Anderson. Such a class act.
her costars say otherwise.
She was one of my favorites growing up. Still beautiful and sweet. Loved the show.
Love this interview. Love this lady. Obviously a great person. And great mom.
I grew up with this wonderful televisionserie, I loved every episode of it. Great actors! The freedom, the space where they lived, the honesty, the family feeling, the community.
Behold! A genuinely nice human being! And pretty, too.
Still love the 2 Melissa's. I still love them both. Growing up with then. And have showing my 2 sons and the still love to watch today.
what a smart, bright, woman. listening to her is easy, because she communicates well, and remembers so much. i remember the evil teen aged witch she played in a tv movie, circa 1981 or so....she was badass!
i remember that movie :) she sure was
I love little house on the prairie I still watching it!
The scene when she went blind, her acting was superb. I literally felt her fear. The acting of all actors in this series was perfect
I love you Melissa...you are so true within your character, and without...God Bless Melissa.....
You couldn’t be more right. I grew up watching her every week, not even realizing how she’d stolen my heart. What a truly beautiful soul she is.
This really does make one appreciate the comforts of 2020. We have so much.
Yet our values have suffered.
Wanting a dictionary shows how humble of a time this was.
I'm not oblivious to mistakes made in America during the time with other cultures, but that hasn't entirely changed.
The values have dissipated
I was living in Simi Valley at the time th😂 show was filmed there. One day a year they would open the set to the public. My daughters really enjoyed seeing the cabin and the other buildings in the set. I remember seeing Melissa walking around the Topanga Mall one day.
She still has the twinkly of blue eyes from when she was a kid
Where would they go?
@@nicolelovesjesus6156 Tee hee! Very funny🙂
16 years ago, we still interested in all these characters. Thank you Mellissa for all your hard work. You left a " foot print."
I loved the show still watch every day
She is beautiful inside and out, I love her blue eyes. And so sweet. I never get sick of watching the reruns.
Not so beautiful inside.
@@Diostillrocks And what makes you say that?
@@loveshell6945 based on what practically all the kids on the show and some who have appeared on the show have said about Melissa Sue. She was the Nellie Olsen of the set.
Love it when Mary slugged that bully with her lunch pail! LOL
Many compliments to Melissa, beautiful and clever woman
Melissa Sue Anderson was always my favorite character on the show. I also liked the character of Ma Ingalls. I pretty much liked them all, but these two were my favorites.
i miss tv like this. now its so shallow and without meaning, at least loads of the stuff showing.
beautiful.... even now...
I think Melissa sue Anderson is brilliant as Mary ingalls, Mary goes through so much but she is so strong! For an actor to play a blind person must be hard but she did so well ! I love this tv series, I am only on season 4 but I love it so much don't make t.v. like this anymore !
My favorite episodes still today is the 100 mile walk and the last farewell
she has eyes that could rule the nation they just make you melt and helpless to do her bidding
Damn she looks great!!
@TheJohnlennongirl she actually has written a book called The Way I See It;A Look Back At My Life on Little House. In fact the three of them (Melissa Sue, Melissa G and Alison) all had books published this year.
thank you I will order it..
So down to earth.
@daphna13 I loved it when Mary hit that punk with her lunch pail. It was great when the towns people marched them out of town.
I absolutely Love Little House on the Prarie!! When I was little my cousin and ai would lay little house on the prarie my cousin would be "Mary' because she had long blonde hair and I was "Laura 'because I had long brown hair and Id braid it into two braid's
THANKS FOR POSTING
xx
What a beautiful lady!
The feelings between Mary and John junior were so beautiful, especially in that last episode of season 2! :)
I didn’t so he went off and found someone else just like in real life! 👀
Mrs Whipple, Queenie Smith comes from the 1930s style of acting... those early 30s movies, were very quick-talking, and a lot of dialog in a short time!
Great question! I always wondered if there was any jealousy.
The bully boys.
Highly recommended!!!
Mi actriz favorita en la casa de la pradera, junto a melissa gilbert
my favourite from greece
I did like the "Mary" episodes that she did.
Oh me too!! I love Mary & Melissa.
I love her! I have to wear glasses as well as my boys
She doesn't seem like a Bitch, she is sharing her thoughts as it's an interview.
dej353 the realest bitches are the two who called her a bitch. The fact she doesn’t come down to their level shows how different she is than them . They remind me like the two stepsisters of Cinderella . Trashing her doesn’t make them look better in my opinion ,
Que mujer tan hermosa!
i love her
That's a riot! I was thinking the same thing. "Danger Will Robinson" (For those of us old enough to remember such things).
She has eyes like Bo-Derek, Check it out at how she looks a bit like her.
Mary and Laura really stuck together as sisters.
Ken Hernandez me,Issa gilbert hates her .....
They hate one another.
@@Diostillrocks i said Mary and Laura the characters. Go get a life.
@@kenhernandez8128 Mary pushed Laura off a wagon.
Mary always tried to be better than Laura. She bullied her and was mean to her. Terrible sister.
She was good actress
Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas de traduction en français.
at least she has a REAL face still ;)
wow she still very very pretty.
Girls Show for sure but : classic all american here - extremely attractive and nice : icing on the cake
Not so nice.
she looks and has the sweet polite mannerisms as my sister-in-law Ann. My sister in law Ann We call each other Sistah Sledge. She has the same eyes..My sister in law has these deep ocean green eyes ..They look like sisters..I love my sister in law
@TheChar96 her eyes are very light blue to this day:)
Let's not get carried away - she's still gorgeous for her age, but Victoria Justice is hot!
We could realize she has been good aged through her eyes.
When Mary knocked Bubba on his ass 😝😝😂😂
Is she being interviewed by a talking computer or robot?
KingofPepsi
Lol I think they dubbed his voice in after. Maybe his audio wasn’t very good on their tape so he had to voice over in editing. Or maybe the reporter doing has a bad voice for interviews. Idk the real answer but it sounded good.
The original must be really bad because the voice is horrible. It mispronounced "debut" several times.
He sounds like the narration of movies shown in Seinfeld like the one about the woman who was in a coma but then came out of it
2:00 and they wonder why kids are packin at school
In every acting I see of her, I see drama (ex: love boat, fantasy island, hotel). It may be according to what she says here.
MSA stutters a lot when talking about Melissa Gilbert.
apparently , alison ( nelly olson) paints a different portrait of her...
Seb she and Melissa Gilbert were simply jealous cause she was simply beautiful while they were average looking ( not ugly of course but not Nearly As beautiful as her ) . Also the fact she was reserved ..... being reserved is not a flaw , not everyone has to be a clown like Alison is in her interview .
@@salvolondon Melissa Sue was cold and mean. The guy that played John Jr said so. Even Karen Grasso said MSA gave her the cold shoulder and was difficult to get to know.
@@salvolondon nonsense. This is a sexist prejudice when instead Allison as well as Melissa Gilbert described in detail what the problem was with MSA.
Kids don't make fun of glasses anymore, like they did in the 70's & prior. (M.S.A.. is 5yrs older than I).
I wore glasses in 1964, and nobody made fun of people in school who wore glasses...I don't know what kind of school you attended, but it wasn't like that here...
@TheChar96 she has blue eyes. do you think they look brown :P?!!
When she speaks about how they didn't give her more to do on Little House it's not true most episodes were actually about Mary and her boyfriends or illnesses. I've been watching reruns a lot lately and noticed they focused a lot on Mary's character so I think she may need to revisit that. Still love Mary anyway.
I had heard, too, that her and Melissa Gilbert didn't have anything to do with each other off screen. She seemed to blow the question off.
She differentiated btw the beginning when they did not give her a lot to do and later in the series when she had good parts.
MSA didn't like all the bad stuff happening to her character.
@djme5419 Most of the later episodes were of Mary getting boyfriends and illnesses . She was talking about the early episodes
Nunca había escuchado su voz
what year was this interview.how great she is
2005
Nellie and laura wrote books years later saying mellisa was cold and not friendly
is both melissa friends today??
is there some interview were melissa gilbert talks about melissa sue/missy?? plz message me.or who is friends with who now..i know dean butler and him john carter,remain friends tho
Is she being interviewed by a recording?
She is so pretty I like u
Interesting they were doubtful of her acting but she was supposed to play a blind girl eventually.
25.5.19♥♥♥♥♥
de-beuuut. Great American pronunciation!
Is there a robot interviewing her?
i think so too
It doesn't sound like it. Melissa Gilbert is best friends yet with Alison and sees Lindsay and Sidney from time to time. But doesn't stay in contact with Melissa Anderson. (nor her own brother Jonathon for that matter....by his choice)
Melissa Collins the fact her brother doesn’t wanna see her says it all .....
@@salvolondon
Not at all.
First it is not known who doesn’t want to see who and secondly you can be a wonderful person but not want to see some family member for a good reason.
I thougt she had blue eyes?!
She is so sweet, People say that Melissa Gilbert was a terror to work with.
I think you have Melissa Gilbert mixed up with Melissa Sue Anderson, according to the books by Melissa Gilbert and Alison Arngrim (Nellie).
F Joseph Gonzales the fact that the two of them trashed her says it all . Melissa she Anderson didn’t do the same in her book . People who trash others are always in the wrong compared to people who are not vindictive towards them
Based on both sides of the story being heard, I think Melissa Gilbert was probably hard to work with as she got older. Melissa Gilbert has had a few estranged relationships with people. Melissa has not seen or talked to her brother Jonathan who played Willie in years. I think he abandoned his whole family shortly after Little House ended. She also cut ties with Michael Landon for years as well and didn’t talk to him outside of work. It took his diagnosis with cancer for her to reconcile with him. She also can’t stand the girl who played Jenny Wilder because she copied her a lot. Melissa Sue Anderson was sheltered by her strict parents growing up and wasn’t allowed to have any friends outside of work except Michael Landon. I think that’s why Melissa Gilbert said they didn’t get along very well. Plus like Melissa Sue Anderson said in the interview they had to compete for screen time I guess. I think Melissa Gilbert has issues since a lot of people she worked with she doesn’t like or isn’t close with them anymore. Feel bad for her though since her dad killed himself when she was 11 and her brother has nothing to do with her. But I think she might have been tough to work with.
@@veryfungamesawesome Melissa Sue Anderson was the real Nellie Olsen.
@@Diostillrocks I think YOU are the real Nellie Olsen
Joanne Kieff
@KingofPepsi lol hes voice is creepy
@izzybelle1579 The Bully Boys, Season 3, Disc 3 :)
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Oh, PLEASE. Do your research. The TV Little House series had as little to do with the reality these historical figures faced in the late 1800s as the automated watering system that was used on the set in Simi Valley to make the slopes green had to do with actually living w/o indoor plumbing, as much of our planet CONTINUES to do.
Anderson was a very competent child/adolescent actor, no question. But to compare the fantasy Landon produced for our TVs and our wallets as fact is as specious as saying everyone in the US *currently* has access to safe water, public education, etc.
In real life Charles Ingalls was an unsuccessful itinerant farmer who, tragically, had to cope with both natural disasters and the rapidly changing politics of that time. He was only lifted out of poverty by his daughter, Laura, once she had done the same for her husband, her child, and herself after she became an adult.
In real life after Mary Ingalls became blind due to an illness (NOT genetics) Mary had zero/ few options beyond living w/ her parents until their deaths, then living w/ a younger sister until Mary’s death. Blindness at that time was a major financial liability for almost all in North America. Marriage was out of the question.
Every farm the real Charles Ingalls started failed. He packed up his family and left the state in the middle of the night at least twice per public records b/c he was defaulting on his bills.
As an adult Laura was far more financially successful, rewriting a fair amount of her family history to be more palatable to the newly created youth book market in the early 1900s.
The TV show was safe and entertaining for those of us who grew up watching it. I have no expectations that any of the child actors to understand what happened to the historical characters they represented.
However, listening to Ms Anderson’s total focus on herself and her role in this TV show, often excluding or ignoring the perspectives of others, and her failure to read a single book about the real Ingalls family, while extolling the show as being an accurate representative of Western European pioneer life is as embarrassing to her as to all those in North America who actually researched the history of the works that gave her this platform.
wtf she die in 1932
Is it just me or would anyone else drink this woman's dishwater
Huh?
5:26 in bam yep she was Jealous of Melissa Gilbert. Sad
I never realised she had a stammer
She hasn’t.
Stutters much.....
She didn't Stuttered at all What Interview were you watching?