Caroline Ingalls: “My home is where you are. And you and the children are my family.” Charles Ingalls: “Caroline Ingalls, I love you.” Pilot Episode We may have fallen in love with her for her starring role as Caroline Ingalls, but Karen Grassle had a thriving career beyond that. Explore more about the amazing woman…
Ed Friendly’s Life and Legacy
About Ed Friendly Ed Friendly was born in Manhattan on April 8, 1922. He spent his formative summers on a ranch in Idaho where he fell in love with horses and the American West. He served as an Army captain in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he worked in New York…
About Blanche Hanalis
“I’m often overwhelmed by the thought that what I have written is reaching an audience of forty or fifty million people in a single night.” Blanche Hanalis in The Television Writer’s Handbook Early Life and Career of Blanche Hanalis Blanche Hanalis was born December 11, 1915, in Ohio, but grew up in the Chicago area….
About Alison Arngrim
“Mother says we’re not like the rest of the children.” Season 2, Episode 11, The Gift Alison Arngrim’s Early Years Alison Arngrim is a natural-born performer with a love for people and a gift for making them laugh. So, not surprisingly, she entered the entertainment field at a young age, starting out in commercials and…
About Richard Bull
“You know, an animal is no different than a person. It needs to be with someone who loves it.” Nels Oleson speaking quietly to Laura Ingalls on the front stoop of his home. Season 3, Episode 2 “Bunny” RICHARD BULL’S EARLY YEARS Richard Bull was born June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois about 50 miles…
About Dean Butler
“There is no day, there is nothing I do as a producer that I don’t ask myself, on some level: What would Michael do?” ~ Dean Butler in an interview about his production career When Dean Butler first appeared on the set of “Little House on the Prairie” to play Almanzo Wilder, he may not…