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As Olivia Walton, Michael Learned was Amazing. Her presence on the show was so strong and loving. I don't think that, Michael understood how important her character was on the show. She I feel that she didn't realize how much viewers loved her as Olivia Walton. She was Beautiful and A wonderful Mom on the Walton's Series. She was perfectly Cast as Mrs Olivia Walton. 🌹🌹🌹
Michael Learned is just magnificent! Thursday nights were special at our house where we made homemade popcorn and watched as a family. My 85 year old mother and I are rewatching the series and I went back and related their ages to people in our lives which makes it even more meaningful. Grandma and Grandpa are close in age to my great grandparents, John and Olivia were born close to the time my grandparents were born and the children were in the same time period as my parents. These people are as much a part of the fabric of my life as my own extended family. These days I cry more than anything when watching because it elicits those memories. The entire cast was phenomenal and the relationships you always wanted in your life. Thank you for doing this. Michael, you are so appreciated and loved. Your presence and way of dealing with your inlaws, your husband, and your kids made a lifelong impact on us all.
What a wonderful thing to say and love hearing about those special moments with your family😀That is why shows like the Waltons mean so much to me and so many people. Hope you become a subscriber if you aren’t already. Also in case you missed them, please make sure to see the 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton on my channel as well😀
This is wonderful, thank you, John. Michael is the kindest, most generous, loving, and most sensitive soul I've ever known. I started as a Production Assistant on the show, lucky me, huh? And the magic of that work I carry in my heart to this day. Michael's '"..have some coffee more coffee, John?" story is hilarious, and true. As the show progressed it became a challenge for the writers to develop stories for Michael, but I felt Michael underestimated what her very presence meant, just that, her presence in a scene, no lines necessary. A couple years ago Michael reminded me of this: One day (I believe it was Season 5) we were shooting a scene in the garden - it was Michael and Ellen on their knees planting something (I think it was green beans) in the dirt. Michael had no lines. It was hot, and we were covering the scene from various angles. As we completed the wide shot it took time to re-position the camera, adjust lights, etc. Michael and Ellen, instead of heading off to their respective trailers, sat there in the dirt, in the heat, so that I wouldn't have to go chasing after them once we were ready. I asked Michael if she'd like some water...and Michael looked up at me and said, "Why am I here? You could have done this without me." And I said, "Michael, every time you touch a flower you move the furthest star, that's why you're here." It was the permanence of the show, her presence that mattered. We shot on film, and the technology was advancing so rapidly that soon those Warner Brothers Vaults would no longer be needed to protect the negatives, the digital revolution would make the episodes 'permanent' And here we are now, still a 'family' watching the show, for many of us, for the first time.
Wow, what a story John, just wonderful! I couldn't agree more that her presence alone was the constant grounding of the show.You always felt her presence. She is a real actor's actor, a total professional. Glad you enjoyed it and it brought back these awesome memories.
John, I commented on this, exact, same thing, on I believe, it was Behind the Scenes, with Judy Norton. I said this in a comment. Michael Lerned, didn’t, have to speak a word, on the show. Her presence, was enough. She was that, strong of a character. She underestimated, the power of her presence, on this Iconic, show. She didn’t have to speak one single word. Not one. 💕
@@brendaholman3835 Yes, totally agree! Michael Learned has that essence, acquired or inherent, she is a very powerful strong character and person. When she left the Waltons, there was an emptiness that could not be replaced.
Hi John Dayton! I understand that every character on The Waltons made that show a huge success. But there is something extraordinary about Michael Learned, which you've explained well in your comment. Thank you!
Literally she is! And such a great person as well. Loved talking with her. Glad you enjoyed the interview. Please subscribe if you haven’t already so you can be notified when I release a new episode😀
@@jsstar76 Wanted to also make sure in case you didn't see them on my channel there are also 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton from The Waltons as well. Judy is terrific! Enjoy!
Micheal learned i just love you as Mama Walton you and ralph waite made a beautiful Couple and Olivia and John Walton. i adore you and i continue to watch the re - runs of the Waltons.
God I love her. I love her I love her. What an interesting and inspiring person. She has lives such an amazing and interesting life. She to me is how it should be done. She handles fame and being a celebrity like the queen she is. Thank you for your amazing show too. How in the world do you have all the goods to get such big names!!??? Thank you I love all Walton's. I'm so grateful.
Patrick I really hope you are a subscriber to my channel. Besides Michael’s fantastic interview (I agree she is an amazing lady) there are my two Judy Norton interviews and Kami Kotler is coming in by year’s end. Judy will be back once more as well! Make sure you hit the notification bell so you are notified. Thanks for your kinds words😀
Michael Learned, was the absolute, Best, person, that, Earl Hamner, could have chosen, to play, the part of Olivia Walton. She was amazing and I loved, watching, The Walton’s. I still look forward to, watching the show, every single day. She is a Legend and The Walton’s, is a Classic. 💗
Hard to argue or visualize anyone else in the role of “Olivia”😀The Waltons definitely is one of a kind. Hope you had a chance to see my three interviews with Judy Norton as well, enjoy!
Thanks so much, Michael is so kind and open. Thrilled you enjoyed the interview. I believe you already subscribe but if I am wrong please do so you can be notified when I release my next episode😀
She is wonderful! Glad you enjoyed the interview with Michael. Make sure to watch the two interviews I did with Judy Norton as well. A lot of fun! Hope your a subscriber so you can get notified when Judy comes back on my channel and Kami Cotler will be coming in as well!
0 seconds ago Michael Learned, I’m a better human because of the Walton’s show. Even the difficult topics such as race and ethnicity, I think the show was brave in tackling in such a humane way. There were uneasy truths handled in a caring manner. I a better grandmother and mother because of your portrayal of Olivia Walton. I thoroughly enjoyed the show, Nurse. Thank you for being excellent in your work.
Thanks Marcie, great feedback and I think Michael as Olivia affected many of us. Hopefully she sees your comments as I am sure it would mean a lot to her. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already so you can be notified as more Waltons episodes are coming.😀
Ricky, I appreciate your enthusiasm as I feel the same way often as I do these. Michael is an icon and so appreciative of what has come her way. Well I hope i can sustain the high bar you have for "That's Classic!' I will certainly try:)
The Waltons-at least the tv series-began life as a Christmas tv special. But after everyone loved the tv special the studio decided to have it be a series.
Enjoyed the interview ! Great to hear her perspective along with her back story. Glad you made it happen. Thanks for a memorable experience to both of you !
Appreciate that Duane. Michael was such a pleasure to interview. So interesting. Also, make sure you check out the interview on my channel with Judy Norton, another great one. I think you you already subscribe but if not please do so you can be notified when I release an episode:)
Hi John Cato and a big hug to Michael Learned. This is my first time posting and this is only the 2nd video I've had the pleasure of watching - as I've only discovered your Channel recently. I don't even know how to say it, but I was completely taken by this extensive and very open interview with Michael Learned. I loved her role as Olivia and I am impressed with her as a person (as a single newly divorced Mom - raising 3 boys while working on the much loved WALTONS as grueling and long as the hours were - she and the cast made it work! wowed us for generations.) She has to be a very strong person - not only in her character role. When she mentioned her philanthropic time in Bangladesh & what she shared with us, moved me to tears. The young Bangladesh man thanking her for "giving him a childhood he never had" was so heartfelt. This entire interview was exciting as it was enlightening. The strongest female character and presence on The Waltons in my opinion was Michael Learned. Thank you, John Cato, you have a very charismatic interview style that gets to the heart of the questions that you know fans wish they could ask and have answered. 👍⭐🤩
Thank you so much Lisa, I truly appreciate your compliments😀Michael is just a very special woman on so many levels and just shows so much humility and truth. It was a pleasure to interview her as a fan myself. Hope you enjoy my interviews with Judy Norton as well ❤️
@@ThatsClassicTV You are very welcome John Cato. I am a new subscriber and I am eager to watch more of your fantastic interviews. Judy Norton is another wonderful host on her Channel and a terrific interviewer as well. Thanks again for the special way you engage with your guests which gives us the audience a treat of a lifetime.
@@LisaLisa-2023 My pleasure Lisa, thanks for subscribing. Judy has been on my channel three times and every interview has been unique. She has been very supportive of my channel. I agree she is a great interviewer and very genuine.Enjoy!
a very nice interview with ML, a shame she was experiencing audio/mic issues, but you both managed to knock the interview out of the ballpark - thanks so much :)
Michael Learned is wonderful while rewatching the Waltons. Our family of 6 popped popcorn and watched new episodes every Thursday with a big blanket spread on the floor, and one time my sister's foot landed in the chip dip after a somersault hehe. My mom passed away when I was a teenager so I spent time with my Grandma, 50 years older than me. As her dementia set in 3 years ago, I started rewatching The Waltons for alternate glimpses of the depression to better understand her point of view as she was born in 1918. She grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky with a Model A, but cardboard lining the holes in their shoes so that meant barefoot in the summer, but plenty of food to eat for 10 kids. The house was small so the boys could spread out if they slept in the barn. The boys smoked tobacco drying in the rafters, while the girls weren't allowed to smoke and wore sunbonnets because they knew the sun aged skin (didn't have to wait for sunscreen to know that). The boys died in their 70s and 80s, and the girls lived long lives, 2 in their 100's. A few months ago my Grandma passed away at 103, active until the last 2 weeks, working until the end, re-dusting her dresser and creasing her bed linens perfectly folded as if getting ready to hem them. She was a Rosie the Riveter in Detroit, then sewed Lincoln leather seats, then became inspector who sewed the prototype seats on the Mustang. Henry Ford shook her hand to say good job thank you. Michael and Ellen always had their hands busy in the show, just like my Grandma 2 weeks before passing, never idle.
I get goose bumps thinking what great actors she and Ralph were. The thing about Ellen is in some ways she became a greater actor after the stroke--the strength she exuded. I wonder what it is that quality like this is no longer on TV.
Everyone is so talented coming from all sorts of lifestyles. Michael is an amazing woman. I always noticed how beautiful she was and still is to this day. All the ladies who were just girls in the Waltons grew into gorgeous women. Really amazing!
It was so interesting to find out the details of how Michael got the part. The takeaway for me: she is still close to all of the "Walton children". It is so refreshing to know they are close this many years after the shown ended. Thanks for bringing this great content to us!
I have been binging The Waltons on Freebe and enjoying each episode again, I am on season 5 and hate for them to end, I think I will rewatch all over again when I’m done I loved Olivia’s role, she was amazing, and so beautiful, and Ralph Waite OMG such an amazing actor he was, truly they all were so talented …I love Judy’s channel as well. I am going to subscribe to your channel, your a great interviewer
Great interview with Michael Learned, although I thought it was strange that whenever she brought up the Walton children she never mentioned Kami Cotler's name.
Thanks a bunch. Michael might have not mentioned Kami’s name just because she was in the middle of a thought. I don’t think it was anything intentional.
This was a great video. She is still a beautiful woman. I am obsessed with the second actor that played John Boy. I would really like to see him in an interview. Would you happen to know what he is doing now?.if he is on a television show or movie I haven't recognized him. Thank you so much for putting all of these together. Great job.
My pleasure William. Michael is a terrific woman and what a story. The second actor that played was Robert Wightman but time will tell but not sure I will be able to get him on the show. Time will tell. If you are not already a subscriber please do as you will be notified when I release a new episode. Thanks for the positive feedback:)
She is an amazing actress . Growing up although I knew of the Walton's but I was into Little House and honestly I just for some reason I didn't have any interest in the show . Then in 2022, bored and surfing the channels for something good on TV to watch I decided to give the show shot and I was hooked and in a matter of a couple weeks I had watched every season and episode. I loved this family . I have always been drawn to stories about how liife was back in those days and the innocence and love of family and growing up in those times.
So glad you found the Waltons, it never gets old. Glad you enjoyed the interview and hope you also watch the 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton as well. Enjoy!
I loved watching the show would love to see reruns of the waltons wish the network would produce a reunion show of the members of the waltons now with all the living members and their family's when the last reunion aired to pick up from that at years later just a thought
I hear you, the Waltons are still popular and have them all back would be amazing😀I think you already subscribed but if I am wrong please do. Judy will be coming back in the near future!
On Mash Alan Alda said in an interview that in the Mash mess tent scenes that the actors never actually ate in there either (Michael saying that on Waltons the actors never actually ate in the dinner scenes)
Good interview as always. However, I've noticed that Bob Bergen hasn't joined you for the last couple of interviews. Will he no longer be participating?
Actually Kevin Bob will be back from time to time but due to his crazy busy schedule he has limited availability. I love having Bob as a co-host but the availability that guest has controls the scheduling. I think there is a good chance Bob will be on within a month or so👍
She talked only slightly about her Soap experiences but she was appreciative of that time. If you haven’t already please subscribe to my RUclips channel so you can be notified when I release a new episode😀
This play jewellery Judy j u d y Judy I would like to know how long she's been married and if she had any children at that time and did she enjoy her trips they all sound exciting to me.
Thank you for watching my channel! If you enjoyed this video, please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channel. I have fun talking about television from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s television shows and often with the stars of the shows.. _
As Olivia Walton, Michael Learned was Amazing. Her presence on the show was so strong and loving. I don't think that, Michael understood how important her character was on the show. She I feel that she didn't realize how much viewers loved her as Olivia Walton. She was Beautiful and A wonderful Mom on the Walton's Series. She was perfectly Cast as Mrs Olivia Walton. 🌹🌹🌹
Michael was just destined to be Olivia. I feel she was the balance for the whole show.👍
@@ThatsClassicTV So do I. 👍
Another wonderful interview! Michael Learned is a wonderful actress and played the part beautifully!
Thanks again Becky! Michael is a great actress and is so appreciative😀
Michael Learned is just magnificent! Thursday nights were special at our house where we made homemade popcorn and watched as a family. My 85 year old mother and I are rewatching the series and I went back and related their ages to people in our lives which makes it even more meaningful. Grandma and Grandpa are close in age to my great grandparents, John and Olivia were born close to the time my grandparents were born and the children were in the same time period as my parents. These people are as much a part of the fabric of my life as my own extended family. These days I cry more than anything when watching because it elicits those memories. The entire cast was phenomenal and the relationships you always wanted in your life. Thank you for doing this. Michael, you are so appreciated and loved. Your presence and way of dealing with your inlaws, your husband, and your kids made a lifelong impact on us all.
What a wonderful thing to say and love hearing about those special moments with your family😀That is why shows like the Waltons mean so much to me and so many people. Hope you become a subscriber if you aren’t already. Also in case you missed them, please make sure to see the 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton on my channel as well😀
This is wonderful, thank you, John. Michael is the kindest, most generous, loving, and most sensitive soul I've ever known. I started as a Production Assistant on the show, lucky me, huh? And the magic of that work I carry in my heart to this day. Michael's '"..have some coffee more coffee, John?" story is hilarious, and true. As the show progressed it became a challenge for the writers to develop stories for Michael, but I felt Michael underestimated what her very presence meant, just that, her presence in a scene, no lines necessary. A couple years ago Michael reminded me of this: One day (I believe it was Season 5) we were shooting a scene in the garden - it was Michael and Ellen on their knees planting something (I think it was green beans) in the dirt. Michael had no lines. It was hot, and we were covering the scene from various angles. As we completed the wide shot it took time to re-position the camera, adjust lights, etc. Michael and Ellen, instead of heading off to their respective trailers, sat there in the dirt, in the heat, so that I wouldn't have to go chasing after them once we were ready. I asked Michael if she'd like some water...and Michael looked up at me and said, "Why am I here? You could have done this without me." And I said, "Michael, every time you touch a flower you move the furthest star, that's why you're here." It was the permanence of the show, her presence that mattered. We shot on film, and the technology was advancing so rapidly that soon those Warner Brothers Vaults would no longer be needed to protect the negatives, the digital revolution would make the episodes 'permanent' And here we are now, still a 'family' watching the show, for many of us, for the first time.
Wow, what a story John, just wonderful! I couldn't agree more that her presence alone was the constant grounding of the show.You always felt her presence. She is a real actor's actor, a total professional. Glad you enjoyed it and it brought back these awesome memories.
John, I commented on this, exact, same thing, on I believe, it was Behind the Scenes, with Judy Norton. I said this in a comment. Michael Lerned, didn’t, have to speak a word, on the show. Her presence, was enough. She was that, strong of a character. She underestimated, the power of her presence, on this Iconic, show. She didn’t have to speak one single word. Not one. 💕
@@brendaholman3835 Yes, totally agree! Michael Learned has that essence, acquired or inherent, she is a very powerful strong character and person. When she left the Waltons, there was an emptiness that could not be replaced.
Hi John Dayton! I understand that every character on The Waltons made that show a huge success. But there is something extraordinary about Michael Learned, which you've explained well in your comment. Thank you!
She is a TV legend!
Literally she is! And such a great person as well. Loved talking with her. Glad you enjoyed the interview. Please subscribe if you haven’t already so you can be notified when I release a new episode😀
She's a superb actress & brings a unique personal best to all of her roles. Thanks for the interview & for sharing it with us!
👍🏽💯😊
She really is a great actress and brings so much to every role, love her. So glad you enjoyed it!
I loved her Virginian accent on the show. Great actress.
I know it was so believable and Michael is just so natural in the role of Olivia.😀
By the way I just subscribed.😀
@@jsstar76 Thank you so much! Looking forward to bringing you some more great interviews😀
@@jsstar76 Wanted to also make sure in case you didn't see them on my channel there are also 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton from The Waltons as well. Judy is terrific! Enjoy!
@@ThatsClassicTV Thank you for your information and I will suggest this channel to everyone I know. !
Wonderful to hear from Michael Learned. A great interview.
Thanks Frank! Truly appreciate it! I loved talking with Michael so genuine.
Micheal learned i just love you as Mama Walton you and ralph waite made a beautiful Couple and Olivia and John Walton. i adore you and i continue to watch the re - runs of the Waltons.
Michael Learned and Ralph Waite were perfect as Olivia and John Walton, just iconic I agree. Hope you enjoyed the interview, Michael is amazing😀
God I love her. I love her I love her. What an interesting and inspiring person. She has lives such an amazing and interesting life. She to me is how it should be done. She handles fame and being a celebrity like the queen she is. Thank you for your amazing show too. How in the world do you have all the goods to get such big names!!??? Thank you I love all Walton's. I'm so grateful.
Patrick I really hope you are a subscriber to my channel. Besides Michael’s fantastic interview (I agree she is an amazing lady) there are my two Judy Norton interviews and Kami Kotler is coming in by year’s end. Judy will be back once more as well! Make sure you hit the notification bell so you are notified. Thanks for your kinds words😀
Michael Learned, was the absolute, Best, person, that, Earl Hamner, could have chosen, to play, the part of Olivia Walton. She was amazing and I loved, watching, The Walton’s. I still look forward to, watching the show, every single day. She is a Legend and The Walton’s, is a Classic. 💗
Hard to argue or visualize anyone else in the role of “Olivia”😀The Waltons definitely is one of a kind. Hope you had a chance to see my three interviews with Judy Norton as well, enjoy!
Loved you in the show. And a wonderful interview
Thanks Angelene! Loved interviewing Glenn and glad you enjoyed it!!!
A thoroughly enjoyable interview. ML is truly a genuine person.
Thanks so much, Michael is so kind and open. Thrilled you enjoyed the interview. I believe you already subscribe but if I am wrong please do so you can be notified when I release my next episode😀
Her terrible plastic surgery has ruined her lovely face...overfill and her eyebrows are two inches higher than previous photos!!!gaaah... 😮
Olivia's beauty outshines her tv daughter's. Beautiful lady. 👱♀️
She is wonderful! Glad you enjoyed the interview with Michael. Make sure to watch the two interviews I did with Judy Norton as well. A lot of fun! Hope your a subscriber so you can get notified when Judy comes back on my channel and Kami Cotler will be coming in as well!
I wouldn't go that far! about outshining her tv daughters.
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Michael Learned, I’m a better human because of the Walton’s show. Even the difficult topics such as race and ethnicity, I think the show was brave in tackling in such a humane way. There were uneasy truths handled in a caring manner. I a better grandmother and mother because of your portrayal of Olivia Walton. I thoroughly enjoyed the show, Nurse. Thank you for being excellent in your work.
Thanks Marcie, great feedback and I think Michael as Olivia affected many of us. Hopefully she sees your comments as I am sure it would mean a lot to her. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already so you can be notified as more Waltons episodes are coming.😀
Wow! Loved this so much. Michael is such a legend, and so genuine and honest. You've done it again, John! Thank you. 🙂👏💜
Ricky, I appreciate your enthusiasm as I feel the same way often as I do these. Michael is an icon and so appreciative of what has come her way. Well I hope i can sustain the high bar you have for "That's Classic!' I will certainly try:)
@@ThatsClassicTV John, no expectations or high bar from me. Just simply love what you do. 🙂🙏
@@rickyireland3047 😀👍
The Waltons-at least the tv series-began life as a Christmas tv special. But after everyone loved the tv special the studio decided to have it be a series.
Thanks Nicholas!
Enjoyed the interview ! Great to hear her perspective along with her back story. Glad you made it happen. Thanks for a memorable experience to both of you !
Appreciate that Duane. Michael was such a pleasure to interview. So interesting. Also, make sure you check out the interview on my channel with Judy Norton, another great one. I think you you already subscribe but if not please do so you can be notified when I release an episode:)
My late mother and I always wanted to visit Austria ..
Another gem! Thanks! ❤
Of course Brenda, glad you enjoyed it😀
Hi John Cato and a big hug to Michael Learned.
This is my first time posting and this is only the 2nd video I've had the pleasure of watching - as I've only discovered your Channel recently.
I don't even know how to say it, but I was completely taken by this extensive and very open interview with Michael Learned. I loved her role as Olivia and I am impressed with her as a person (as a single newly divorced Mom - raising 3 boys while working on the much loved WALTONS as grueling and long as the hours were - she and the cast made it work! wowed us for generations.) She has to be a very strong person - not only in her character role. When she mentioned her philanthropic time in Bangladesh & what she shared with us, moved me to tears. The young Bangladesh man thanking her for "giving him a childhood he never had" was so heartfelt. This entire interview was exciting as it was enlightening. The strongest female character and presence on The Waltons in my opinion was Michael Learned.
Thank you, John Cato, you have a very charismatic interview style that gets to the heart of the questions that you know fans wish they could ask and have answered. 👍⭐🤩
Thank you so much Lisa, I truly appreciate your compliments😀Michael is just a very special woman on so many levels and just shows so much humility and truth. It was a pleasure to interview her as a fan myself. Hope you enjoy my interviews with Judy Norton as well ❤️
@@ThatsClassicTV You are very welcome John Cato. I am a new subscriber and I am eager to watch more of your fantastic interviews. Judy Norton is another wonderful host on her Channel and a terrific interviewer as well. Thanks again for the special way you engage with your guests which gives us the audience a treat of a lifetime.
@@LisaLisa-2023 My pleasure Lisa, thanks for subscribing. Judy has been on my channel three times and every interview has been unique. She has been very supportive of my channel. I agree she is a great interviewer and very genuine.Enjoy!
Even after Ellen had the stroke, she came back and although speech was difficult, She still said to Grandpa, ( You old fool ) too funny...
😀😀Yes and it is amazing that Will Geer found her in the first place and saved her life
a very nice interview with ML, a shame she was experiencing audio/mic issues, but you both managed to knock the interview out of the ballpark - thanks so much :)
Appreciate that Jim. It was very difficult since Michael was having Wi-Fi issues but we made it work. Glad you enjoyed it😀
Yes I do remember her show
Michael Learned is wonderful while rewatching the Waltons. Our family of 6 popped popcorn and watched new episodes every Thursday with a big blanket spread on the floor, and one time my sister's foot landed in the chip dip after a somersault hehe. My mom passed away when I was a teenager so I spent time with my Grandma, 50 years older than me. As her dementia set in 3 years ago, I started rewatching The Waltons for alternate glimpses of the depression to better understand her point of view as she was born in 1918. She grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky with a Model A, but cardboard lining the holes in their shoes so that meant barefoot in the summer, but plenty of food to eat for 10 kids. The house was small so the boys could spread out if they slept in the barn. The boys smoked tobacco drying in the rafters, while the girls weren't allowed to smoke and wore sunbonnets because they knew the sun aged skin (didn't have to wait for sunscreen to know that). The boys died in their 70s and 80s, and the girls lived long lives, 2 in their 100's. A few months ago my Grandma passed away at 103, active until the last 2 weeks, working until the end, re-dusting her dresser and creasing her bed linens perfectly folded as if getting ready to hem them. She was a Rosie the Riveter in Detroit, then sewed Lincoln leather seats, then became inspector who sewed the prototype seats on the Mustang. Henry Ford shook her hand to say good job thank you. Michael and Ellen always had their hands busy in the show, just like my Grandma 2 weeks before passing, never idle.
Wishing you all the best, thanks for sharing😀
I get goose bumps thinking what great actors she and Ralph were. The thing about Ellen is in some ways she became a greater actor after the stroke--the strength she exuded. I wonder what it is that quality like this is no longer on TV.
Some people are born to play a role and both of them sure were.
Everyone is so talented coming from all sorts of lifestyles. Michael is an amazing woman. I always noticed how beautiful she was and still is to this day. All the ladies who were just girls in the Waltons grew into gorgeous women. Really amazing!
I agree with you, it really is amazing and they all seem like great people as well😀
It was so interesting to find out the details of how Michael got the part. The takeaway for me: she is still close to all of the "Walton children". It is so refreshing to know they are close this many years after the shown ended. Thanks for bringing this great content to us!
Thanks for your comment Neil. I found Michael so interesting as well. It just makes you feel good. My pleasure as always😀
She is always an interesting interviewee
You look lovely Michael!
Without a doubt!😀
The Waltons is on Prime. I’m on the 9th season now.♥️
It never gets old, The Waltons holds up well. Terrific show😀
I have been binging The Waltons on Freebe and enjoying each episode again, I am on season 5 and hate for them to end, I think I will rewatch all over again when I’m done
I loved Olivia’s role, she was amazing, and so beautiful, and Ralph Waite OMG such an amazing actor he was, truly they all were so talented …I love Judy’s channel as well. I am going to subscribe to your channel, your a great interviewer
He was a great actor.
Yes she was!!
Great interview with Michael Learned, although I thought it was strange that whenever she brought up the Walton children she never mentioned Kami Cotler's name.
Thanks a bunch. Michael might have not mentioned Kami’s name just because she was in the middle of a thought. I don’t think it was anything intentional.
She had class....
She did and she still does😀
This was a great video. She is still a beautiful woman. I am obsessed with the second actor that played John Boy. I would really like to see him in an interview. Would you happen to know what he is doing now?.if he is on a television show or movie I haven't recognized him. Thank you so much for putting all of these together. Great job.
My pleasure William. Michael is a terrific woman and what a story. The second actor that played was Robert Wightman but time will tell but not sure I will be able to get him on the show. Time will tell. If you are not already a subscriber please do as you will be notified when I release a new episode. Thanks for the positive feedback:)
She is an amazing actress . Growing up although I knew of the Walton's but I was into Little House and honestly I just for some reason I didn't have any interest in the show . Then in 2022, bored and surfing the channels for something good on TV to watch I decided to give the show shot and I was hooked and in a matter of a couple weeks I had watched every season and episode. I loved this family . I have always been drawn to stories about how liife was back in those days and the innocence and love of family and growing up in those times.
So glad you found the Waltons, it never gets old. Glad you enjoyed the interview and hope you also watch the 3 interviews I did with Judy Norton as well. Enjoy!
I loved watching the show would love to see reruns of the waltons wish the network would produce a reunion show of the members of the waltons now with all the living members and their family's when the last reunion aired to pick up from that at years later just a thought
I hear you, the Waltons are still popular and have them all back would be amazing😀I think you already subscribed but if I am wrong please do. Judy will be coming back in the near future!
On Mash Alan Alda said in an interview that in the Mash mess tent scenes that the actors never actually ate in there either (Michael saying that on Waltons the actors never actually ate in the dinner scenes)
Interesting info!
She’s 81!
Actually I believe it’s 83, but vivacious as ever!
Good interview as always. However, I've noticed that Bob Bergen hasn't joined you for the last couple of interviews. Will he no longer be participating?
Actually Kevin Bob will be back from time to time but due to his crazy busy schedule he has limited availability. I love having Bob as a co-host but the availability that guest has controls the scheduling. I think there is a good chance Bob will be on within a month or so👍
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Enjoy, the interview is a blast!
I grew up baptist Walton's on Thursday night was sacred
I can believe it😀
Loved her on young and the restless when she subbed for Jeanne Cooper. Hope too see Lynda Carter
She talked only slightly about her Soap experiences but she was appreciative of that time. If you haven’t already please subscribe to my RUclips channel so you can be notified when I release a new episode😀
@@ThatsClassicTV Gotcha great interview
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My first crush as an 8 yr in 1976
Wow, glad to bring back those memories! Enjoy, Michael is so open and sincere 😀
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Thanks Rebecca, this was definitely a special interview for me as well❤️
Is anyone else bothered by the lack of an apostrophe in the original title?
303 likes? Com'on it takes less then a second
She does not come close to the beauty of Karen Grassle~
Everyone has their favorites, they were both fantastic and wonderful to interview😀
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Wish I could have asked her but we only had so much time. Glad you enjoyed the interview 😀