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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 bit parts and moving up through the years. She had a recurring spot on a panel-style show called “Juvenile Jury” and filmed “Throw Out the Anchor” – a full-length movie – in Florida when she was 10. For even more on the three girls behind the Nellie Oleson character, read The Three Faces of Nellie Oleson by Robynne Elizabeth Miller. Fast-forward to 2023, and Arngrim says her and her former co-stars are already planning big things for next year, the 50th anniversary of the show's debut.
The actress played Nellie Oleson on seven seasons of the show, which ended 40 years go this month.
It was the second such injunction filed against the city, which is currently racing to offer housing to everyone living under and around freeways, per Carter’s orders. Ray Ellin, according to Wikipedia, is a comedian, talk show host, producer, writer, and director. According to Sleeping with Celebrities, he is also a fairly fanatical devotee of the television series Little House on the Prairie and he discusses it freely, openly, and in great detail on our latest episode.
Where does Alison Arngrim think the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ characters would be 35 years later?
According to her, he didn’t think anyone would watch a show about life on a prairie and it would be a “miracle” if the show lasted. By the time Arngrim got home, her agent had already negotiated her salary and scheduled a wardrobe fitting the following week. She says this was the easiest role she ever auditioned for. “I can honestly say this was the easiest role I ever landed before or since,” says Arngrim in her book. Nellie Oleson was spoiled throughout her childhood, particularly by her mother Harriet, who wanted to indulge Nellie’s every whim.
L.A. Built a Tiny-House Village for Homeless Residents, and Some Aren’t So Sure About It
The villages mark a puzzling shift in L.A.’s strategy, which had previously declared tiny homes insufficient for housing. Just a few years ago, three dozen of them — also painted in bright primary colors — were built around the city through a crowdfunding campaign led by activist Elvis Summers, but the city attempted to seize the occupied homes. “Mayor Eric Garcetti does not favor tiny houses for homeless people,” a spokesperson said in 2016.
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LA's Largest Community Of Tiny Homes For Homeless Opens In North Hollywood
She would always try to sabotage Laura, but failed in her efforts. At the end of most episodes, Laura would successfully exact her revenge on Nellie. Throughout the series, she has had horse manure thrown on her, was pushed down a hill in a wheelchair, was pushed into the mud, and was even punched in the face by Laura at least twice! After some years, Laura and Nellie stopped hating each other and then they became close friends. As a gift for finishing school, Harriet and Nels gave Nellie a restaurant.
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Besides that, she's working on a cookbook (she already has a YouTube cooking show), a newsletter on all things Nellie and a podcast, The Alison Arngrim Show, on which she has hosted Prairie friend Gilbert. "I was 19 years old, and I'd been there since I was 12," Arngrim says. Another thing that has held up over the years are the friendships between cast members, who also include late writer/director/executive producer Michael Landon (Pa), Melissa Gilbert (Laura), Karen Grassle (Ma) and Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary). Sadly, some of them have died, but the ones who are still around meet up or chat by phone or email regularly. After declaring their love for each other, they decided to get married outdoors, due to Percival being Jewish and Nellie being Christian.
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Alison indulged her audience with one last tumble into the creek, plopping down and crying “Mo-ther! After some time of young Alison not landing any roles, her father felt it necessary to explain that acting might not become a lifelong career for her and that she should consider stopping. But she had another audition in her, and within six months of that conversation, she would become Nellie Oleson. So that's what we see in the final episode, with the people of Walnut Grove having banded together one last time in order to keep the good thing they built together away from some greedy developers. So Arngrim actually wasn't part of the show's finale, but she remembers that it had her laughing when she watched it for the first time.
Arngrim says they loved her performance so much that she was hired on the spot. Arngrim first auditioned for the role of Laura (the role eventually went to Melissa Gilbert). She was then called back to audition for the role of Mary (played by Melissa Sue Anderson). Those two roles didn’t work out, so Arngrim was called again to audition for the role of Nellie Oleson. Her father was one of the few people who could keep her in line.
You can learn more about its work and the two tiny home villages here. The organization is also currently looking for community members to "sponsor" a tiny home. Funds collected by sponsors will help pay for the operational costs of the site. For both the Alexandria Park Village and Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village, the city tapped Washington-based builder Pallet Shelter to provide the units. The company specializes in creating durable, portable, and affordable shelters for those without a home.
Each structure offers privacy, security, and a home base where people can connect with services and eventually make their way into permanent housing. The strip of land alongside the 170 Freeway in North Hollywood has long been a place where homeless people have set up camp. The former homeless encampment has been transformed into a village of tiny homes with enough space to house 200 homeless people. After leaving Little House, Arngrim appeared in guest-starring roles on such television series as The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
I was and am still very proud of the work I did as Nellie. So even though, from a professional, financial outlook, being typecast as anything can really suck, I couldn’t help buy take it as a compliment that people so bought into what I was doing that they BELIEVED IT WAS REAL. Well, let’s see – my name is Alison Arngrim, I’m an actress, writer and stand-up comedian. When I'm not writing about entertainment, lifestyle, or personal finance, I'm thinking about where I'm going to get my next cup of coffee. "I've had people show up at my show in New York and Seattle and Boston and San Francisco wearing bonnets. Grown people, at 10 o'clock at night, in a nightclub, wearing bonnets, dressed as Laura, carrying the lunchbox as an evening bag,'' she said. Alison Arngrim knew she hit a nerve with her portrayal of Nellie Oleson on "Little House on the Prairie'' when she took an orange soda to the head as a 16-year-old child star riding in the Santa Claus Lane Christmas Parade in Hollywood.
Nellie Oleson was the name Laura gave to her biggest rival in On the Banks of Plum Creek, Little Town on the Prairie and These Happy Golden Years. But Nellie Oleson was actually based on three schoolmates from Laura’s childhood, so she would not have to name them personally in the books. This is only one of two instances where Laura delibrately used fictionalized names for certain unpleasant characters.
"It's the one with the girl who stutters. Oof!," Arngrim says. "So Nellie has a club, and I'm the president, and I rule everyone. Why Laura would want to be in Nellie's club is not quite explained. I don't know. But she has this friend [Anna] who stutters and stammers. And so I treat her horribly and make fun of her." Even so, Arngrim told Yahoo Entertainment in May 2021 that, for child actors, being on Little House was like winning the "child safety lottery."
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