Alison Arngrim Reveals ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Secrets | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Actress Alison Arngrim has fully embraced her former role as mean girl Nellie Oleson on the beloved TV show “Little House on the Prairie,” which she details in her book, “Confessions of Prairie B----.” She joins Megyn Kelly TODAY to talk about her relationships with co-stars and to open up about devoting time to the National Association to Protect Children as a child sexual abuse survivor herself.
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Alison Arngrim Reveals ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Secrets | Megyn Kelly TODAY
She really did a fantastic job as Nelly!
I agree 💯 she sure did. Thank you for your comment.
Can we all just agree that Alison is 100% awesome and that we need more people like her in the world.
100% agree!❤💙
Agree
Yes! I love her. She seems like so much fun!!
I had the honor of working with her back in the day for an aids benefit, she was as gracious as she is on here.
Nice.
Met Alison at a book signing years ago
She was very funny and kind. lots of good stories.
Allison is proof that it’s good to have a youthful soul as you get older. It’s okay to be silly and have fun.
I agree 💯 indeed age is a mind over matter an it doesn't matter if you stay happy humble excited for others kind it's however we want to grow ? just take dear sweet Betty White for example or good ole Nelly who is complete opposite of her character as an actress God bless them be happy and enjoy life never let anyone steal your thunder
@@lindacarbone9576 That's some sound advice Nina. Thank you 😊
Nellie was my all time favorite character! Best line, when Mother buys her the restaurant "But who's...going...to do...the COOKING?"
Then.... the ‘help wanted’ sign
Ahahaaa! I read that hearing her voice! Perfect! 👌😂
😂lmao! Reminds me of one of my favorite lines when some random customer from the restaurant was demanding warm bread. Nellie gives that guy an ugly look, shouts "COMING RIGHT UP!" And throws bread at the guy, knocking him over 😂😂😂
Lily Zerep I have to find that now! 😂
Lily Zerep I kind of remember the guy who kept getting burnt food and stuff everyday, and then he was so happy when mrs ingalls started cooking 😂 I wonder if it is the same guy haha!
The girl you loved to hate. The wheel chair scene was the best!
She has so much energy,..seems like she'd be fun to hang out with!
When I was little -- 40 years ago -- she came and visited this little Montreal depanneur that was opening.. OMG she was this teenage darling and just as fun as now 😘
She really still has her Nellie voice
What a wonderful lady!!! God bless all of her work she puts toward keeping children safe!!!!
Yes! She is wonderful and will be blessed. She is down to earth and humble too, which is great!
Is the woman who play the mother on little house still,alive?
@@bethboho9633 yes, both Karen Grassle and Katherine McGregor are still alive. (Caroline Ingalls and Harriet Olsen).
@@monalisasmile6629 Katherine McGregor passed away at the end of 2018.
Vedran Iljazović oh no! Really! I had no idea! Ahhh another cast member gone! Thank you for letting me know.
She's absolutely delightful.
The show was such a blessing when I was growing up. It was a wonderful show! I absolutely love her, what a hero she turned out to be.
She's fifty-two that makes you 31 and you was a conservative., You must have had your own struggles?!
Shes so cute! Her look and personality.
Indeed i agree she's kinda of adorable or at least that's what i think
So sorry Allison was abused in her past. She seems like an awesome person!
Really omg
@@vikingrolloishot1789 Yeah she was molested as a child by her older brother 😔
@@LilyZerep wow omg I’m so sorry that happened to her I myself am a survivor also. I don’t wish it on anyone
@@vikingrolloishot1789 I'm so sorry that happened to you 😔
My grandparents lived next door to Michael Landon’s in-laws. So, I got invited to watch the filming one time. It was a location shoot. I met both Melissas. ( Laura And Mary) They were friendly and very gracious. And I met Michael Landon. He had more energy than anyone I’ve ever seen. He directed everything. He also played ping pong 🏓 all through lunch. I was amazed by how hard everyone worked.
Wow that's awesome good for you im sure that's a wonderful memorie you have like ive said i still watch little house on the Prairie today it's one of the few shows im able to enjoy the actors and actresses who didn't let hollywood go to their heads im certainly thankful to God almighty for that. Thank you for sharing your story again that's absolutely wonderful im sure you will never forget that beautiful day ? i don't know what i would have done if i was ever face to face with Michael Landon i always had the biggest crush on him grown up i used to say i was going to marry him LOL 😅 so i probably would have made a fool out of myself ? oh well lucky you i would be lying if i didn't say im a little jealous of you hahaha
Coolbeans
I hated when "Nellie" moved and the character never returned. "Nancy" was just annoying.
Agreed!
Nancy was a poor copy of Nellie. She never rose to Nellie’s level
Yes! Constantly saying “you hate me!” Ughhhh
The Nellie character was maliable and had a chance for redemption; which she did once she married. Nancy didn’t have a redeemable bone in her body. One of my favorite story lines was when Nellie and her husband come back and Nellie sees how rough it was to raise her by watching her mother try to deal with Nancy.
UGH I forgot about Nancy, I wanted to murder her 😂😂😂 I thought Nellie was bad, Nancy is terrible
I love Allison. ❤️ Her personality and her sense of humor is just amazing :)
Out of all the actors/actresses that were on Little House on the Prairie, her interviews are the best. She is just hilarious. Makes total sense she went on to do standup comedy.
I was not born when Little House originally aired but I grew up watching series in reruns and own a lot of the dvds. I love all the cast. Also, I think Michael Landon was a great man and easy on the eyes as well.
I loved to hate Nellie!
Me too, lol! I love the role of overbearing mother in laws too 😂
I loved it when Nellie finally started being nice when she fell in love with Percival.
@Daniel Appleton Probably why they brought in Nancy. They had to even out the sweetness with her own brand of sourness.
She's great. What a wonderful person. Her and Melissa really made that show.
But which Melisa?????
@@bailey12354 Melissa Gilbert
@@bailey12354 Melissa Gilbert. Her and Alison were best friends but both have clearly said that they did not get along with Melissa Anderson at all.
Eugene Orowitz had nothing to do with it tho.
Michel Landon played a small role
Read Melissa's book "Prairie Days" too - she talks about their being best friends on the set. I loved everything about that show.
Love this so much! She does an amazing job with the same old questions she must hear millions of times over....”was that really a wig” and “were you and Laura friends” and “What was Michael Landon like” and “Didn’t you audition for Laura and Mary originally?” She has a great personality and just seems like a fun person.
I smiled so much while I watched this my cheeks hurt.
so did the lady who is sitting behind "Nellie"...
@@mrsTraveller64 looòlip nikki unto
Lavender Child SAME 😆😆😆😆
Still watch this show almost every single day and love it
remembering jazziedog so do I!!
@@beaky3178on COZI TV.
Alison has always been amazing in interviews. I love her.
Every time we check our chicken barn for eggs we joke around saying "country girrrrls". Lol
MacPilly Homestead LOL I never understood that “long legged snipes” insult from that episode 🤷♀️
@@deletedleaf2688 that comes from the books. Since kids grow so quickly, girls had "grow stripes" which was just extra fabric folded at the bottom of dresses. When the girls grew, Caroline would lower the length of their dresses to cover their legs. However, when they went to Walnut Grove, there was no more room at the bottom of their dresses, and there was no time or money to make dresses right away. And the girls had no shoes. So, when Laura and Mary showed up to the first day of school, with very short dresses and no shoes, they were called long legged snipes.
pa ingalls was a gorgeous man!
Samantha Evans He sure was.
Yep. And loved it. Soo too bad what he did to his wife tho. Pretty much took himself off that pedastal. Glad she became a CHRISTian as a result ... AND Michael Jr. God really does work in people's 🤗 most horrible, painful times.
I never though Karen Grassley was beautiful enough for him.
@@brookehanley3659 I read that she was the only one he wanted. Saw her inner beauty and talent, portraying a sweet and good mother. He made certain that in the scripts she was treated the way he thought a woman should be.
But not a nice man. He abused his children and abandoned one wife and family after another.
I wanna meet her!! I loved nellie. LHOTP is my all time favorite show. Lots of likable characters, even nellie!!
Jacinta Morrison I really liked Nells. He was always so laid back and calm. How he ever put up with bitchy Harriet I'll never know. 😞😒
Can't believe it's taken me 40+ years to find out she's such an astonishingly cool person.
How Nellie changed after falling In love and marrying Perceval.
Great pair. Perfect for each other. He reigned her in.
Hi Pam hope you’re okay?
I used to watch that show with my mom. 😢 Was nice to see Nellie! Seems like a great lady.
I love her character on Little House
Love her. She is so funny. Nellie was one of my favorite characters. I never missed an episode.
She is awesome!
Hi Wendy hope you’re okay?
Nellie and Harriet Oleson were the spice back then on the show.
As a kid Laura was my favorite. As an adult Mrs. Oleson and Nellie are my favorite. Mrs. Oleson was so talented. So comical, yet believable. Nellie was too. My favorite part was when Percival was teaching Nellie how to separate the eggs and she told him he should write a book "short cuts to cooking." She just kept calling him short. Then when she realized she loved him, she squat walked to make herself shorter and he thought she was mocking his height. Her growing up years were memorable, but when she got that restaurant, that was so great!
I still love Little House to this day!! Even though Nellie was horrid, Alison did such an amazing job acting her character!! Can you imagine Little House WITHOUT Nellie Olsen???!!!
My grandmother loved the show.
Or without Harriet.
I always knew she was a cool gal.
She really has got one of the sweetest pair of eyes - very very beautiful !!
Melissa and Allison are best friends in reality - they really had great fun to act in little house on the prairie.
I also loved Allison in the episode the return of Nellie - what a beautiful matured young lady she had been there !! Oh I still love and watch this show - I am 60 years old now and watched it first in the 1970s. Later I watched it together with my children almost every autumn - it is so cosy and comforting !! Now I started to watch it with my grandchildren ....
Lots of love from Germany !! ❤🍃
Allison is a Beautiful energetic person and God Bless her.. But secretly...(I like Nellie better) 😏😏
Megyn is straight fan girling in this segment 😂🙌🏼🙌🏼
She looks so good!
My big crush on Little House was of course Melissa Sue Anderson, but I had a thing for Nellie Olsen the bad girl
You're not too bad yourself😍
So did you marry a Mary or a Nellie?
I like her!!
I luv that show - I still watch it every day
I need her energy! So glad she is not at all like her character in real life!
Why would she be?😂
Jennifer Wilson wouldn't that be terrible.!
Great actresses come and go, but when you but when you can make so many people dislike you at such an early age there's real talent there. Alison's a great person. I'm glad that she is helping other children. She's the most wonderful person ever for that job.
I agree. To convince the entire world you are the polar opposite of your real personality is great acting!
Megyn Kelly sure loves Little House on the Prairie
Megyn was at an age where she would have watched this when it first aired as a little girl. Started in 1974.September.
@@brookehanley3659 on a different show she said she watched it as an adult also. I think it was when she was working as a lawyer.
I think MANY adults do watch it. I know I do!!
@@brookehanley3659 I've watched as an adult too. When I was a kid we used to call it little mouse on the ferry. My mom wanted to watch it so we used to watch it when I was growing up
I'm 17 and its my favorite show!
Nellie Olson and her crazy mother were what made the show entirely amazing!! I would watch this show with my daughter when she was very young and I'd say to her Hey, its time for" little house" and she'd say Good, I hope Nellie Olson's in this one!
I love the interviews with Nels and Harriett.
I still have some LHOTP VHS and a player to watch them on!
tamara I have the entire DVD set also lol I still pull them out every now and then. Vision TV still airs reruns.
Her voice is the same 🙂
I thought the same EXACT thing!
C
So is Melissa Gilbert’s.
What a wonderful, talented women and actress and comic entertainer . Love her 💖
I read her book that she wrote years ago when it first came out. It's really good reading!!!!
After reading people saying it's good book I might actually get it
Many of the cast members wrote memoirs, I hope to read them someday.
I couldn't help it I loved Nellie. It wasnt her fault her mom spoiled her so much. She got nice once she met a boyfriend. She just needed some love.
In the show, Nellie and Laura became friends in the later seasons right?
This woman is awesome! She also said once that Michael Landon made sure everybody on set was home by 6pm every day so they could be with their family.
The original Draco Malfoy/Joffrey.
Yay! My childhood!
I read her book and it was soooooooo good! To think I spent so many years "hating" her (-:
The peer we love to hate!!!
Adanna Campbell she's one of those ppl. You love to hate. Sort of like JR. on Dallas.
She has such great stories!! We all grew up with this wonderful show!
I really liked it back in the day!
Hi Sharon hope you’re okay?
Thank you, Allison. ❤
Allison and Melissa G. Should get a show again together. On cbs comedy
The fact people can still recognize her as Nellie Olson just shows how absolutely amazing of an actress she is. What an Icon!
I prefer listening to her than melissa gilbert. Down to earth and a pleasure to listen to.
Agreed, agreed !!!!
It's not a competition.
Melissa and Alison are great friends
I know. No one could replace Nellie. Nellie had a good side on the show. Nancy though was far more evil than Nellie ever was
I did not know that she had been sexually and physically abused as a child..that's great that she's helping with that cause because it's so important to bring awareness to it..I am a survivor of child abuse and I try to support causes that help the children and survivors when I can..I REALLY disliked that Nellie Olsen character,she was THE WORST..but I always thought Alison Arngrim was a pretty girl..and she's still pretty 😊
I read her book !! if you haven't read it , i highly recommend you get it . it's fantastic !! unread it cover
i read her book .her brother molested her , got her into drugs . this is s strong woman . a real survivor . the book is fantastic !!!! A+++
Sexual abuse is a horrible crime, but when it happens to children, it becomes a different monster, and especially when its your own brother. Brothers are suppose to protect sisters.
@@carolboyce6055 her brother do this think ? 😢
Yes, her brother was Stefan Arngrim who was a member of the cast of a sci-fi tv series from the late 60's called Land of the Giants.
Kelly's FUNNY AND VERY Talented!!THANKYOU ALLISON FOR HELPING OUR CHILDREN!
Hi Beverly hope you’re okay?
Yes yes yes, the wheelchair episode on Little House was my favorite. That cast was the best. I watched that show on re runs for years. Love it.
Refreshing. She did that wonderful role and has parlayed it into a career. Good for her. I like her too.
She's much nicer than Melissa Gilbert.
She's so bubbly!😁
Interestingly SO!!! Who would have thought?
How would you know? People in interviews are not necessarily the same off screen, and some people put on a likeable persona. Unless you know her personally you really can't judge.
Melissa, is that you??
@@genevievemarie9427 She has more bubbles than Bazooka Joe 😂😂😂😂😂😘😘😘😘😘😘🐒🐒🐒🐒🐻🐻🐻🐻😂😂😂😂
Harriot spoiled Nancy way too much.She never wanted Nels to
Punish her
Nothing more important than advocating for children.
She has the best personality
Love her 🌺
Nellie Oleson was one of my favorite characters'..she was a piece of work lol
Thank you for speaking out about child abuse ! It should not hurt to be a child... I KNOW
Hi Judith hope you’re okay?
My fav episode: “Here come the brides” . I love it when Nellie says to the pig farmer, “I don’t know enough to be a wife, or that I’m good enough for you.” It makes her less one dimensional. She knew she was shallow and there was a human being in there trying to get out.
Agreed!!
Yes! I loved how Nellie had little moments when she was nice and humble. When she was with Luke, that made her nicer. I loved watching her hold hands with him, smile at him and didn't even care that he was a pig farmer 🥰
My Mom used to say that when u hate a character on tv that it is because they are a great actress or actor. Nellie was mean but she was a good mean, I loved the whole show & I am now watching the reruns that are on tv. Nice to see the shows again.
Yes! To me you could tell even in character that she was nothing like Nellie in real life but also Nellie the character wasn't truly mean, she wanted to be liked and didn't know how to make people like her. On the other hand, Nancy the character was pure mean, lol. 😅 funnily enough, the actress who played her is named Allison too! Melissa and Allison must have been the top girl names in the 60s-70s.
I have heard that the nicest people make the best villains on TV or movies. She proves it.
She has bundles of energy. Love her.
I had the biggest crush on her back in the day! She's still sweet as can be and hot as a pistol!
She was so pretty🖒
Wow!!! Suddenly I'm Nelly's biggest fan!
She seems like an awesome, genuine person. I really like her.
My all time favourite show! Grew up watching LHOTP in reruns as I was born the year it came out. 😉 I still LOVE it to this day and while Laura is and always will be, y favourite character, I certainly loved to hate Nellie Olsen!!! 💖💖💖 @alisonarngrim
I just checked out her book from the library yesterday (02/26/24). And started reading it last night.
How do you like it so far? I'm thinking about ordering it online!
bless her
If you remember the 60s TV show "Land of the Giants", Alison's brother and abuser Stefan Arngrim played the little boy on that show
I read that somewhere. So glad she turned out to be a well rounded person!
It was great seeing Alison after all these years !
Her voice still sounds like Nelly at times ..
She's Beautiful 💕
And great to know they all got along so well ..
She played her part very well !!
Her family in the series is such fun.
Wonderful kind woman. Now had dedicated herself to helping abused children. God bless her.
How fun, such memories!
What a lovely person she is.
She was hilarious as Nellie, especially the first episode with Percival.
Luv Nelly
“Confessions of a Prairie B*tch” 😂 I love that title.
Nobody ever forgot Nelly Olson
Love you Alison! You were so deliciously mean!
Had to edit to say, I didn't know you were sexually and physically abused, and fight for the rights of children now! I have even MORE respect for you! Blessings!
My favorite nellie moment. Going down hill in wheelchair falling in pond still laugh and laugh
I’m listening to her book now. I find myself laughing out loud listening to it..🤣 She wrote a really great book. Incredible..🤣
This,woman is a badass
We love Nellie, and Alison even more.
She was my first crush lol.
I thought she was so cute😆