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Bush hastily awoke the napping Sidney and quickly put her little shoes back on … unfortunately, on the wrong feet. In this case, just prior to filming the hillside running scene, he had called for a “Fresh twin, please!” and Mrs. That’s Sidney falling down while running during the opening credits the director rotated the girls every few hours in accordance with California labor laws for such young children. Rachel and Sidney Bush (credited onscreen as “Lindsay Sidney Greenbush” and known as “Sugar Lump” and “Foxy Robin” to everyone on the set) were just 3 years old when they were cast to play the youngest Ingalls daughter. Carrie Ingalls was played by a set of identical twins. There were rumors among the guardians on the set that Missy’s mother was overprotective and controlling and that was the reason the young actress tended to keep to herself. No one ever got very close to Mary Ingalls.īoth Melissa Gilbert and Alison Arngrim reported in their autobiographies that Melissa Sue Anderson (known as “Missy” on the set), who played Mary Ingalls, remained somewhat cold and aloof during her time on Little House on the Prairie.
If that boost wasn’t quite enough in a particular scene, he would make sure that Charles was positioned on a staircase, a ladder, or even a slight mound of dirt.
Michael Landon was just 5-feet-9-inches tall and didn’t want any other actor to tower over him, so he wore four-inch lifts in his boots. Sean Penn made his acting debut on Little House On The Prairie.
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The wig had to be held in place with an enormous metal comb plus dozens of long, straight, metal hairpins, all of which frequently dug into Arngrim’s scalp and caused it to bleed. Finally it was decided that a custom-made wig would be more humane, not to mention both time- and cost-effective. Nellie Oleson’s perfect curls were actually a wig.įor the first few weeks of filming, Arngrim’s own hair was transformed into a series of sausage curls via a torturous old-fashioned curling iron that had to be heated in an oven. Those instances when Laura was seen pulling a drumstick out of her tin lunch pail at school? Well, those came not from the Ingalls’ chicken coop, but from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Michael Landon asked Karen Grassle to change her name when she was cast as “Ma” Ingalls.Īny dinner scene that showed some sort of generic meat and gravy on the family’s plates-regardless of whether Ma announced that it was rabbit, chicken, or squirrel-actually consisted of canned Dinty Moore brand beef stew.
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Eventually Landon gave in and allowed a professional on the set to color his hair. But the scorching, unrelenting sun in Simi Valley, California (where the series shot) would turn his hair an odd shade of lavender after a few days, which caused production delays (lights would have to be adjusted so as to not reflect on his head). He continued using the same product once he started on Little House on the Prairie, dyeing his hair himself. Michael Landon had gone prematurely grey during his Bonanza days, while he was still in his twenties, and used Clairol Medium Ash Brown to color his crowning glory. Pa Ingalls’ hair color came out of a bottle. And while the show itself was very family-friendly and wholesome, the antics behind the scenes of the long-running series weren't always so PG-rated.
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The movie was a huge ratings hit, and since it had a sort-of cliffhanger ending, the network was deluged with inquiries from viewers asking “What happened to the Ingalls family next?” Thus, a series was born. NBC executives approached him with the idea of producing a made-for-TV film based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular Little House on the Prairie series of books.
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When the very popular TV series Bonanza left the airwaves after 14 years, Michael “Little Joe” Landon went looking for a new project.