MELISSA SUE ANDERSON HAD TALKED ABOUT HER DEPARTURE FROM HOLLYWOOD TO MOVE TO CANADA
Little House on the Prairie star, Melissa Sue Anderson was born in 1962, in Berkeley, California.
With her amazing blue eyes, it was certain that she would look good on the stage, and she had a talent for it.
She had acted in Bewitched and The Brady Bunch, as a child star.
But with her part in Little House, she had her breakthrough.
“I’m lucky that there even was a character to play, because in the book, there isn’t much of one,” she said.
“Laura [Ingalls, author of the Little House novels upon which the series was based and the story was centered] was a quite older woman when she wrote the books. She was remembering the best of her life. The characters of Ma and Mary didn’t factor in a lot. There was a lot of Laura and Pa and Laura and Jack the dog and Laura and Mr. Edwards, but there wasn’t a lot of Mary. I’m fortunate that they discovered that I could act,” she continued in her interview with Pop Entertainment.
”A lot of kids at school are curious and ask inappropriate questions, like, ’How much do you make?’ That’s embarrassing. I’ll just give them a look that lets them know what I think of the question or tell them it’s none of their business,” she said back in 1977.
”Everybody thinks actors make a lot of money. But we don’t. At least, not by the time we pay certain costs. Twenty-five of my pay goes into a trust fund. 10 percent to my agent and I spend a lot – too much – on my fan club which has 1,500 members. The initial cost people pay for belonging to the club is one thing, but we spend extra to send out letters, bulletins, Christmas cards. It’s publicity and everything, but it’s costing a lot. Plus, I pay my mom for coming to the set every day, because I’d hire someone to take me here and home anyway,”
The show, Little House on the Prairie, was the place where many talented actors and actresses had their chance to shine.
“She is hateful, horrid, mean, terrible, difficult. She hated me. She knocked me off the wagon when I was nine,” Melissa Gilbert stated about Anderson.
After Little House ended, she acted in Which Mother is Mine? and Survival of Dana.
She had dated with Frank Sinatra Jr., when she was 17, and Sinatra Jr. Was 19.
”Frank Jr. stood right next to the camera and cheered me on,” she said, and added, ”He was a great help.”
But as Melissa stated, there was no romance between them. ”He is just a very good friend,” she stated.
And when it was 1990, she had married with Michael Sloan, and they had their daughter, Piper in 1991 and their son Griffin in 1996.
Later on, they had moved to Canada in 2002, and became citizen in 2007.
“The whole family is Canadian exactly now, and my husband and I had to take the test, and we studied and studied and studied,” Melissa said.
“I really stepped away for a long time,”
“That was really for the kids so they would have their own sense of who they were as opposed to being with me.”
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