Cherie Laub Oh my God I will never forget that either, watching her rock back-and-forth humming rock-a-bye baby, it’s a episode I can’t get out of my memory.
I didn't care for her performance in that episode. I was mad that she nor her husband remembered to take the baby with them and it was their fault he burned. Then she wouldn't cry she would just hum so it was a pretty cringy scene.
"I'll Be Wawing As You Drive Away" sure was one of the most unforgettable episodes of Little House! Melissa Sue played it so well :) And Linwood Boomer was amazing as Adam also! I love Mary and Adam and their beautiful scenes
Melissa Sue played the best blind person I have ever seen, she was very believable. I really liked her as Mary and I cried when she became blind in the show
My BFF has been blind since birth. Mary's blindness inspired her, and so many of her blind friends that they could be more than "the blind kid" in life. We're in our mid 40s now. And she still is absolutely obsessed with the show. There's an annual blind trip to Walnut Grove every year, and everything. 💜
I completely agree with almamatters. Ammen to that. Because you barely see anything so authentic, pure and heartwarming these days... I discovered "Little house..." just lust year (to my great shame). I'm watching the episodes over and over ever since. I absolutely fell in love with the movie and the main characters. And I'll love them as long as I live ...so, ammen to the thought, that future generations will enjoy this piece of art as much we do
I love "Sylvia" episode too!! It is definitely one of my favorites as well! Albert is my favorite character! Olivia Barash was really lovely as Sylvia!! :)
Whats weird is Mike landon said that her going blind would be a good thing for her but after she went blind she was in less episodes and had nonstop bad things happening to her. Like she had a miscarriage and when she finally had a baby iy died in the fire, her husband got his sight back and their relationship wasn't the same anymore.
May be he wanted to cut her character, she didn´t have a good relationship with other actors. By the way, Michael Landon liked too much drama, that is why I never liked this show very much. I don´t want to be constantly crying for fictionary characters.
The Miss Peale character,should've moved to and become a regular at Walnut Grove. She was hilarious hollering bout hells damnation! I can just imagine the yelling matches her and Mrs Oleson would've had LOL
I love what she says about Linwood Boomer, "he was good looking but not spectacularly good looking" (!?) LOL he was hot! Love that she thought he was perfect for Adam because he was. They had good screen chemistry together. Was sad they weren't given more to do in the last several seasons of the show. They were both wonderful actors whose depths weren't plumbed seriously enough! Wonder just how goofy he was on set?
Yeah he was cute, lol. I guess when your working with another actor, your not seeing him the same way us viewers do, lol. You see them everyday warts and all, lol.
organicskating yeah , he’s much better looking than her real life husband . Her kids are not as good looking as her as unfortunately look like their dad
They were a terrific couple, but as someone said it change when he got his sight back. You sensed he was not as into Mary because he did not need her as much as he had when he was blind. I know I felt that when I watched them on screen. It just was not the same.
My mom and I used to watch LHP together when I was in elementary school. I think my dad watched a few episodes when later in middle school I rented some DVDs. The only show my entire family (my parents and my brother) watched together was The Wonder Years when I was in middle school. :)
I don't know why they keep saying that the writers made Mary blind. The REAL Mary DID go blind ...this is not something that the show's writers just made up.
@Melisbeth86 My alltime fave Little House episode was "Sylvia" it starred "Olivia Barrish" who was a well known rocker from Nashville. I'm not sure what she is up to now. I think she made a few guest appearances in several shows over the years
@rydemi Truth to be told, I think the end of Albert's story is an example of extremely bad writing. It was understandable (though not pleasant) that the family left, but after it everything went downhill. I have no idea what to believe. In one ep, the boy is brought back from harm's way and it is indicated he got a happy ending, but in an epilogue he suddenly gets ill and we don't even see the outcome. I don't know who to blame. LHOTP was never a masterpiece of writing but that was unforgivable
I really disliked it, when they made her blind. I was waiting for her to be able to see again. I missed her character and lost interest in the end. It just wasn't the same without her. Melissa is such a beautiful woman today :O
She really has a lot of interesting thigns to say! I forgot how many episodes early-on featured her and how good the writing was. Some of the later seasons were so ridiculous. I absolutely HATE the "Blanche" episode with the orangutan - especially because they made Harriet so horrible in that episode, bringing in the law to shoot Blanche. She wasn't supposed to be THAT bad!!!
I think I saw somewhere that Linwood Boomer, who was the first blind character besides Mary, was cast because he had a quality to his eyes/stare, so it just becomes natural to see him as a blind person. The storyline when he regained his sight was so stupid.
Agree. That was jump the shark to me! It’s like the writers realized they should have made him sighted in the beginning so they could give him more things to do so they corrected it even though it was too late.
@rydemi Well, that makes sense in a way since God was very prominent in LHOTP, but I'm still confused :) I would have loved to see the actual happy ending, but the movie in which Albert falls ill is very touching and good as it is. In a way, it's very artistic. Yeah, I loved Mary but I don't think the Christmas episode was satisfying. I haven't seen it for a while but if I recall she was in only one scene and had a minimum of lines. I was very disappointed; maybe the writers ran out of ideas.
me too Melllisa , like your best friend were really mad at you at that time saw the part when youre be blind, hate those scene really, but those part scene was great success making audiences got into it and really upseted , it's do real
I hated the show when they made her blind. They should have made her get her sight back. Like shes walking home and gets caught in a storm, then she gets struck by lightning and gets her sight back.
"Family show". Funny because as a kid, my friends parents wouldn't let her watch so she would sneak to my house to "play" and would plop in front of my TV and would watch Little House. It was her way of being bad.
Wasn't the same after Mary/Melissa Sue left. Her stories were the best! For fun,cos I write as a hobbie,I myself drafted a spinoff for Mary called "Mary" where her and Adam move to New York and she becomes a blind concert pianist and of course her trials continue...
LookingIand I would have wrote that she had regained the sight thanks to more advanced surgery and that she had other children that she loved very much and that ma and pa moved to New York to be closer to her and her family .
Little House on The Prairie was based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's biograph/Books (which I've never read) but Mary losing her eyesight was not based on facts/reality??? Does anybody know?
On the 3rd Interview she did she mentioned about her fourteen year old daughter watching "little house on the prairie" every night. That's just exactly like meexpect from I watch them sometimes r
They Should've Made it that Mary,becomes A blind Classical Pianist After She and Adam Moved To New York... Adam Has An Affair,and The Adultress Tells Mary,just Before A Major Concert... Mary Breaks Down On Stage whilst playing at the piano,And Runs Off Into The Night And Ends Up In A Nunnary...
Ken Hernandez I agree , or went blind for a wholly and then regained her sight back ( like it happened to Adam ) . It was just too sad thinking of her blind for the rest of her life .
The real Mary went blind. Plus the real Melissa Sue Anderson was so nasty and mean on the set, that she was hostile toward one of her TV boyfriends, that Landon felt he had no choice, but to include the blind story.
I remember my mom would watch this, I cracked up to the point my ribs were hurting on the episode where Mary's hubby whatever his name was got his sight back and he was at a party a she is sitting on a bench like a dum-dum. My mom was like "that's not funny"---- I was like "the hell of it isn't". She then called be a Champion Piece of Shit, I laughed ever harder. Good times
tomcat13claws I agree , I wish they would have made her get her sight back . That would have been so much more uplifting. After she lost her sight her character becomes so depressing . Even the music that was on when there was a scene with her was a sad music .
@meenksellaan1 You know, most people do lose their looks as they age. Someday when you grow up (if you ever do mentally) You will realize that your body ages long before the mindset occurs. In your case I think that will be a tossup
@Melisbeth86 I always thought Olivia Barish was adorable. I was rather heartbroken when her character "Sylvia" died. I never forgot how adorable she was over the years
Humm, copyright grounds! BS! I am reading a set of these books, just read Little house in the Big Woods and now into the Prairie,...so whatever happened to the "fair use doctrine"...permitting Library's to loan books? Greed and corruption! d
I really lost half my interest for LHOTP after Melissa Sue left the show. Mary was and is my favourite character. After Albert left, I stopped to care about the show.
That was the year Melissa Sue was cheated out of her Emmy. The woman who won didn't have a quarter of the material. And quite frankly her role was dull.
Wonderful show---why can't shows be made like this more? Melissa has aged beautifully.
Healthy stuff isn't the agenda now.
She has lots of moisturizer on her skin. It helps a lot.
I remember when she lost her baby, what a performance I will never forget
Cherie Laub Oh my God I will never forget that either, watching her rock back-and-forth humming rock-a-bye baby, it’s a episode I can’t get out of my memory.
@@jenniferwellman5311 SAME!!
I didn't care for her performance in that episode. I was mad that she nor her husband remembered to take the baby with them and it was their fault he burned. Then she wouldn't cry she would just hum so it was a pretty cringy scene.
"I'll Be Wawing As You Drive Away" sure was one of the most unforgettable episodes of Little House! Melissa Sue played it so well :) And Linwood Boomer was amazing as Adam also! I love Mary and Adam and their beautiful scenes
he was so good looking
Melissa Sue played the best blind person I have ever seen, she was very believable. I really liked her as Mary and I cried when she became blind in the show
She really should’ve gotten an Emmy, for her portrail as a blind woman. Because she did such a good job, I believed her
She did win an Emmy for an after school special.
When she woke up screaming for Pa--still gives me goosebumps! She definitely should have won an Emmy for that.
She has always been down to earth with reserved intelligence. Very interesting lady.
Disagree she comes off so jealous
@@simplymemj7370 WOW, 😳😲 to your *CON'ment* , jealous to WHAT‼️ Really❓ REALLY❓❓ 🙄
My BFF has been blind since birth. Mary's blindness inspired her, and so many of her blind friends that they could be more than "the blind kid" in life. We're in our mid 40s now. And she still is absolutely obsessed with the show. There's an annual blind trip to Walnut Grove every year, and everything. 💜
I watched it as a little girl. Now my kids watch it with me and they started calling dad paw. It warms my heart they ask to watch it.
The cast needs to be awarded iconic performances
it is a timeless show, it will be on for generations more to come after us.
Fascinating! Lovely to hear of her experiences on set from her perspective! Amazing actress
Melissa (Mary) you a did wonderful job in little house. My favor show was the AWARD!! Thanks Melissa!!
I really thought that Melissa was going to grow up, and become a BIG star. She was so pretty, and talented.
And a terrible actress
@@shannonjohnson9091 According to her, she was perfect LOL
These Two *OLD SCAGS* bitterly scorned over their OWN Appearance, and LIFE. Kuddos to Melissa Sue Anderson, a *"LIFE WELL LIVED"* ‼️
What a great gal! I appreciate these interviews, thank you!
Yes, why don't they make shows like this anymore, I loved watching little house on the prairie. I wish they would re-run all the seasons on TV again.
Tina Adrain watch them on Insp on tv I watch it everyday during the week, or buy the whole series on Vudu
Amazon Prime has the entire series available also. My wife is watching it there.
I still watch this every day on cozy,it melts my soul 😢
That was my favorite show growing up
My grandma would make popcorn in a cast iron frying pan and we watched Little House. Some of my best memories, with grandma and Little House.
Lordy, to this day, I cannot watch the episodes of Mary going blind.....breaks my heart...
Such pretty eyes!
I completely agree with almamatters. Ammen to that. Because you barely see anything so authentic, pure and heartwarming these days... I discovered "Little house..." just lust year (to my great shame). I'm watching the episodes over and over ever since. I absolutely fell in love with the movie and the main characters. And I'll love them as long as I live
...so, ammen to the thought, that future generations will enjoy this piece of art as much we do
Melissa Anderson's was a great actress ❤❤❤
She's as beautiful as she ever was. Period.
Tk you so much for uploading! Have a nice day!
I love "Sylvia" episode too!! It is definitely one of my favorites as well! Albert is my favorite character! Olivia Barash was really lovely as Sylvia!! :)
I liked mary very much as well as everyone else I wish I could see them in person as well as the little house on the prairie museum
It would be so nice if the networks would create more family shows like this, The Waltons, Touched by an Angel, and 7th Heaven.
I agree. Also, try watching When Calls The Heart. That's a good one in a similar vein. :)
and Life Goes On was also great family series.
They have to have the audience and a certain amount of them, that is usually but not always, the reason they go off the network.
Stephen Collins from 7TH HEAVEN is apparently a pedophile.
down to earth lady!
We watched every week as a family when we were little kids.
Great actress so believable and really pretty girl too she complimented melissa gilberts character so well.
I loved the show, & still watch the reruns, except for when Mary went blind, or when Laura grew up.
she aged so well
This interview is more than 15 years ago.
@@LauRa-re9un oh well. I think she still aged well
I love these episodes even whisper country.
she is so pretty when she smiles.
@AngelofMine090 Thank you for taking the time for answering my question.
She is so beautiful.
Whats weird is Mike landon said that her going blind would be a good thing for her but after she went blind she was in less episodes and had nonstop bad things happening to her. Like she had a miscarriage and when she finally had a baby iy died in the fire, her husband got his sight back and their relationship wasn't the same anymore.
May be he wanted to cut her character, she didn´t have a good relationship with other actors. By the way, Michael Landon liked too much drama, that is why I never liked this show very much. I don´t want to be constantly crying for fictionary characters.
She is so fresh faced with the most beautiful eyes.
The Miss Peale character,should've moved to and become a regular at Walnut Grove.
She was hilarious hollering bout hells damnation!
I can just imagine the yelling matches her and Mrs Oleson would've had LOL
LookingIand or with Kezia lol
I wanted Miss Peel to actually be a Witch!
What a beautiful lady
I love what she says about Linwood Boomer, "he was good looking but not spectacularly good looking" (!?) LOL he was hot! Love that she thought he was perfect for Adam because he was. They had good screen chemistry together. Was sad they weren't given more to do in the last several seasons of the show. They were both wonderful actors whose depths weren't plumbed seriously enough! Wonder just how goofy he was on set?
Yeah he was cute, lol. I guess when your working with another actor, your not seeing him the same way us viewers do, lol. You see them everyday warts and all, lol.
Must have been her age because I think he his/was spectuarly good looking!!
@@t.j.7789 I had the biggest crush on him! Don't tell my husband lol
organicskating yeah , he’s much better looking than her real life husband . Her kids are not as good looking as her as unfortunately look like their dad
They were a terrific couple, but as someone said it change when he got his sight back. You sensed he was not as into Mary because he did not need her as much as he had when he was blind. I know I felt that when I watched them on screen. It just was not the same.
I really like Melissa sue Anderson
I wish she never left the show
She's beautiful
My mom and I used to watch LHP together when I was in elementary school. I think my dad watched a few episodes when later in middle school I rented some DVDs. The only show my entire family (my parents and my brother) watched together was The Wonder Years when I was in middle school. :)
9/14/18. virgohedgie, I LOVED 'The Wonder Years' too. I haven't seen reruns of 'The Wonder Years' on T.V., but would love to.
Very pretty lady !!!
my family watched LHoTP as a family also. we joked about how much we hated it because we were all in tears at the end! 🙂
I don't know why they keep saying that the writers made Mary blind. The REAL Mary DID go blind ...this is not something that the show's writers just made up.
I don't believe that Mary had the adult life that the television one had.
The real Mary Ingalls did go blind according to the Little House books.
True. She said she rest the books. She should had known that mary goes blind at 14
@@jewell92 no she never married
she just thought she's be written out of most episodes, that's all.
So cool 😎
Melissa Sue.......Still gorgeous.
"bring down the lightning, miss peale!" i still remember that! "well...wheres the lightning, miss peale?"
best shows ever !!
@Melisbeth86 My alltime fave Little House episode was "Sylvia" it starred "Olivia Barrish" who was a well known rocker from Nashville. I'm not sure what she is up to now. I think she made a few guest appearances in several shows over the years
@rydemi Truth to be told, I think the end of Albert's story is an example of extremely bad writing. It was understandable (though not pleasant) that the family left, but after it everything went downhill. I have no idea what to believe. In one ep, the boy is brought back from harm's way and it is indicated he got a happy ending, but in an epilogue he suddenly gets ill and we don't even see the outcome. I don't know who to blame. LHOTP was never a masterpiece of writing but that was unforgivable
she is beautiful still!
I agree,,there is far too much garbage on TV now,,,garbage in garbage out
Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas de traduction en français.
Matthew Perry's dad in LHP? No way! I love Chandler. lol
Handsome!!
I really disliked it, when they made her blind. I was waiting for her to be able to see again. I missed her character and lost interest in the end. It just wasn't the same without her. Melissa is such a beautiful woman today :O
the real Mary went blind
"my two best friends were the vice presidents of my fan club"
What I likes about Melissa Sue Anderson because she's a very talkative actress!
well thats what happens..ppl get older. but she aged beautifully
She really has a lot of interesting thigns to say! I forgot how many episodes early-on featured her and how good the writing was.
Some of the later seasons were so ridiculous. I absolutely HATE the "Blanche" episode with the orangutan - especially because they made Harriet so horrible in that episode, bringing in the law to shoot Blanche. She wasn't supposed to be THAT bad!!!
she is beautiful and nice
Very beautiful & classy! She looks like a young Bo Derek!
She is so intensely beautiful 😍😍
I think I saw somewhere that Linwood Boomer, who was the first blind character besides Mary, was cast because he had a quality to his eyes/stare, so it just becomes natural to see him as a blind person. The storyline when he regained his sight was so stupid.
Agree. That was jump the shark to me! It’s like the writers realized they should have made him sighted in the beginning so they could give him more things to do so they corrected it even though it was too late.
Angel..
is it just my computer or did the screen get wider?
whisper county hiw could she not like that one its wonderfull
4:34 still cant watch without cryin...
@rydemi Well, that makes sense in a way since God was very prominent in LHOTP, but I'm still confused :) I would have loved to see the actual happy ending, but the movie in which Albert falls ill is very touching and good as it is. In a way, it's very artistic. Yeah, I loved Mary but I don't think the Christmas episode was satisfying. I haven't seen it for a while but if I recall she was in only one scene and had a minimum of lines. I was very disappointed; maybe the writers ran out of ideas.
me too Melllisa , like your best friend were really mad at you at that time saw the part when youre be blind, hate those scene really, but those part scene was great success making audiences got into it and really upseted , it's do real
I hated the show when they made her blind. They should have made her get her sight back. Like shes walking home and gets caught in a storm, then she gets struck by lightning and gets her sight back.
"Family show". Funny because as a kid, my friends parents wouldn't let her watch so she would sneak to my house to "play" and would plop in front of my TV and would watch Little House. It was her way of being bad.
Matthew parry's father?
Wasn't the same after Mary/Melissa Sue left.
Her stories were the best!
For fun,cos I write as a hobbie,I myself drafted a spinoff for Mary called "Mary"
where her and Adam move to New York and she becomes a blind concert pianist and of course her trials continue...
LookingIand I would have wrote that she had regained the sight thanks to more advanced surgery and that she had other children that she loved very much and that ma and pa moved to New York to be closer to her and her family .
In real life, Mary went blind
i just watched the blind episode with my family
Why if she read the books would she think the blindness was to write her out and to push her away??
Because she was mean and nasty on the set with other cast members.
Little House on The Prairie was based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's biograph/Books (which I've never read) but Mary losing her eyesight was not based on facts/reality??? Does anybody know?
Lynn Bechard-Hulley Mary did go blind in real life she never married she end up living with her younger sister.
IT was based on fact. Mary Ingalls went blind.
Watching a football game - how funny!
Actually, someone who thinks older people can't be beautiful is NOT smarter than me, because you certainly must be a child.
On the 3rd Interview she did she mentioned about her fourteen year old daughter watching "little house on the prairie" every night. That's just exactly like meexpect from I watch them sometimes r
Love the great stone work above the fireplace. Ridiculous.
She's pretty good looking now isn't she?
They Should've Made it that Mary,becomes A blind Classical Pianist After She and Adam Moved To New York...
Adam Has An Affair,and The Adultress Tells Mary,just Before A Major Concert...
Mary Breaks Down On Stage whilst playing at the piano,And Runs Off Into The Night And Ends Up In A Nunnary...
Wow, *HOLLYWEIRD* runs Strong in YOU !!!
@@LucaJacobson8168
She Doesn't become a nun,the nuns just take care of her ... Later On Mary,Laura,Carrie and Grace are all diagnosed with diabetes
@@gaybriellookingland6756 *GayBriel* , you obviously have the *GrIFT* ‼️ 🤨🙄
@@LucaJacobson8168
In Real Life All The Ingalls Girls Became Diabetics,true
Holy Shit all the other actors had PT 1 and 2 she needed 5?
I personally think Mary should have never went blind.
Ken Hernandez I agree , or went blind for a wholly and then regained her sight back ( like it happened to Adam ) . It was just too sad thinking of her blind for the rest of her life .
It made her days numbered.....
The real Mary went blind. Plus the real Melissa Sue Anderson was so nasty and mean on the set, that she was hostile toward one of her TV boyfriends, that Landon felt he had no choice, but to include the blind story.
@@Diostillrocks go away
@@kenhernandez8128 you go away.
I remember my mom would watch this, I cracked up to the point my ribs were hurting on the episode where Mary's hubby whatever his name was got his sight back and he was at a party a she is sitting on a bench like a dum-dum.
My mom was like "that's not funny"---- I was like "the hell of it isn't".
She then called be a Champion Piece of Shit, I laughed ever harder.
Good times
Mary going blind kind of ruined the show for me.
tomcat13claws I agree , I wish they would have made her get her sight back . That would have been so much more uplifting. After she lost her sight her character becomes so depressing . Even the music that was on when there was a scene with her was a sad music .
Well the real Mary went blind, they did embellish a lot on the rest of her life.
I always thought her on screen husband was quite gorgeous!!!
@meenksellaan1 You know, most people do lose their looks as they age. Someday when you grow up (if you ever do mentally) You will realize that your body ages long before the mindset occurs. In your case I think that will be a tossup
@Melisbeth86 I always thought Olivia Barish was adorable. I was rather heartbroken when her character "Sylvia" died. I never forgot how adorable she was over the years
@AngelofMine090 wait so mary never got married ? what about the baby she lost ?
Mary Amelia Ingalls in reality, never married or had any children.
That was made up on the show. She never married!
Humm, copyright grounds! BS! I am reading a set of these books, just read Little house in the Big Woods and now into the Prairie,...so whatever happened to the "fair use doctrine"...permitting Library's to loan books? Greed and corruption! d
I really lost half my interest for LHOTP after Melissa Sue left the show. Mary was and is my favourite character. After Albert left, I stopped to care about the show.
Still pretty.
That was the year Melissa Sue was cheated out of her Emmy. The woman who won didn't have a quarter of the material. And quite frankly her role was dull.
The real Mary Ingalls became blind but she never married. She lived with her parents.