Melissa Gilbert revealed how Michael Landon became a father figure after her own father's death. Melissa Gilbert revealed how Michael Landon became a father figure after her own father's death.
In the middle of the Great Depression, young bookworms were introduced to a spirited girl growing up in woodsy Wisconsin during the 1870s. Though not every detail was strictly autobiographical,
Little House in the Big Woods was the true story of its author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was born on February 7, 1867, and died on February 10, 1957. Readers were captivated by her tales of family life on the homestead, and Wilder capitalized on this success by penning an entire series of Little House books, which followed the protagonist to the prairies of modern-day South Dakota and beyond. Get to know the pioneering author behind the series with these eight fascinating facts.
‘Stalker in the Attic’ Single Mom Mel Is Michael Landon’s Daughter
The protagonist of the Lifetime movie
Stalker in the Attic(originally titled
Within These Walls) is Mel Carver. As if being a single mom wasn’t hard enough: after breaking up with her boyfriend Ben (
Joshua Close), who is forced to move out, she starts to notice strange things (sounds and shadows) in her house. So strange that she starts to fear for her life.
Mel is portrayed by Jennifer Landon, daughter of the late, great TV actor
Michael Landon (Charles Ingalls aka Pa on
Little House on the Prairie and Little Joe on