Alison Arngrim was by no means “nasty” to her co-star when cameras stopped rolling.
The previous youngster star, who performed imply woman “Nasty” Nellie Oleson on “Little House on the Prairie,” celebrated the show’s 50th anniversary over the weekend at Large Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, California. It’s the place the sequence was filmed throughout its nine-season run from 1974 to 1982.
Amongst these in attendance was Melissa Gilbert, who starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder. Whereas Oleson was famously a bully to Gilbert’s character, Arngrim insisted that in actual life, they have been extra like “sisters” than rivals.
Melissa Gilbert, left, as Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder and Alison Arngrim as Nellie Oleson. (Getty Photographs)
“Here’s Melissa Gilbert and I enjoying mortal enemies, beating one another mindless all week,” the 62-year-old instructed Folks journal. “And then on the weekends, we’d go to each other’s house for a slumber party, and we were hanging out.”
Arngrim famous they even had enjoyable choreographing their battle scenes collectively.
“It’s so completely bonkers,” she instructed the outlet.
Arngrim beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital that she and Gilbert, 59, have been buddies.
Alison Arngrim, proper, stated she and Melissa Gilbert have been nice buddies on set. (Getty Photographs)
“We’d beat each other up all week and then go to each other’s houses for slumber parties and make fudge and watch TV,” she stated.
Through the competition, Gilbert shared her recollections of co-star Michael Landon. The actor, who performed patriarch Charles Ingalls, died at age 54 from pancreatic most cancers in 1991.
The actress described how Landon would exit of his option to make the forged pleased.
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Melissa Gilbert, left, and Alison Arngrim attend The Hollywood Present held at Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport on July 2, 2022, in Burbank, California. (Albert L. Ortega)
“Every year for NBC, he would announce the Rose Parade and instead of taking a payment for that, he would use that money to buy the cast and crew Christmas presents,” Gilbert instructed the outlet.
“So he sacrificed his New Year’s Eves, basically, to be at the Rose Parade at 3 a.m. so that he could give us all really amazing Christmas presents,” she added.
Gilbert described the star as “a father figure,” one whom she developed a detailed bond with.
“My own father passed away when I was 11,” Gilbert mirrored. “And I had been working with Michael for two years at that point, and he really sort of stepped in and kind of watched over me in a much more paternal way.”
Melissa Gilbert is seen right here with Michael Landon as Charles Philip Ingalls. (NBCU Picture Financial institution)
“These people are here because he wrote this show and directed it and produced it, and I know that he would be incredibly proud if he could see this,” she shared.”This is his legacy. A hundred percent.”
Main as much as the competition, Arngrim instructed Fox Information Digital that Landon was a straight-shooter who battled insecurities.
“Michael, in many ways, was a Hollywood person,” Arngrim defined. “Yes, he owned a Ferrari. He had fast cars. But… the show was therapy for people. And I believe it was therapy for Michael in a lot of ways… [What surprised me] was that… insecurity, because he was so powerful. He was the executive director. He was the producer. He was the writer and star of the show. He was everything. He was loved by millions, absolutely gorgeous, very much in charge… He’d be cracking jokes. He had a wonderfully twisted, warped sense of humor. He was hilarious.”
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Michael Landon, left, cherished his Ferrari and cigarettes, stated Alison Arngrim. (Getty Photographs)
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“But you could see that there were moments when he was trying so hard, ‘Will this be good enough?’” Arngrim continued. “He wanted it to be good enough to be perfect. And you could see that there were times when he’d get that look like, ‘Oh, my God, maybe this isn’t going to be perfect.’ And I think that was maybe the thing that drove him, maybe scared him. That it wouldn’t be perfect.”
Many years later, Arngrim nonetheless views the beloved patriarch as “complicated and fascinating.”
“That was the most fun you could have on a set without getting arrested,” she stated. “[He was all about] the jokes, the foolishness, always wanting to make the kids laugh… and then being very supportive and respectful at the same time. And then being an absolute task master… all at the same time, all day long. I don’t think I’ve met anybody [else] quite like him.”
