“She didn’t even look up”: In Little House on the Prairie, Nellie’s interpreter was not at all good with this other actress.

If the rivalry between Nellie Oleson and Laura Ingalls was created from the beginning by the screenwriters of Little House on the Prairie, we can say that the rivalry between the interpreters of Nellie and Mary Ingalls existed behind the scenes.

icy gaze

in his book Confessions of a Prairie Hen: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love to HateAlison Arngrim (Nellie) wrote about Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls): “I was trying to be nice…but it became a Zen exercise. Waiting for him to respond was waiting for one person to clap. I was greeted most of the time with an icy stare or a kind of silent ‘Uhuh.’ Sometimes between breaths there was less than that: he didn’t even look up, what he was reading.

But today everything is better!

Recently invited to the program Chez Jordan (via Recreational televisionAlison Arngrim still wanted, in retrospect, to clarify previous statements:

It’s true that I was young, I was 12 and a teenager, and he was. There were difficulties between us. We had very different personalities. Now, 50 years later, things are much better.

The two actors actually met again at the recent Monte Carlo festival, where they were finally able to make peace. It must be said, in her defense, that Melissa Sue Anderson’s life was not rosy on set. It was his mother Extremely possessive and he was isolated from the rest of the children, which caused frustration especially with Laura Ingalls’ interpreter, who admitted that he was “It’s hard to agree” With him who played his big sister Mariam.

In addition, her agent, when she got the role of Mayor, told her that the production wanted her to lose weight. Stakeholder Response: “Obviously I said yes. After that I heard that they found me too healthy to play as a pioneer. That’s right, I had a very round face… I lost those kilos, but I was worried for years because of these reasons.”

The actress would continue to play Mary Ingalls for 7 seasons and until the start of the eighth season, before leaving the series: “To be completely honest, I don’t even remember the last day of my shoot. I made it to the end, I played everything a blind woman was supposed to play. I mostly remember being torn between ‘I don’t. I want this to be over’ and ‘I have to go on.’ “But I just want to remember the good moments of this experience.”