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?

I can't find it.

good to see her slap boys and girls.

@@laurenmontera9516 You can find all of them on DVD. 😊

her costars say otherwise.

Where would they go?

@@nicolelovesjesus6156 Tee hee! Very funny🙂

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.

i remember that movie :) she sure was

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.

thank you I will order it..

I didn’t so he went off and found someone else just like in real life! 👀

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 ,

Oh me too!! I love Mary & Melissa.

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.

2005

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

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...

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.

Not so nice.

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

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 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

She hasn’t.

Huh?

She didn't Stuttered at all What Interview were you watching?