7 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Little House On The Prairie’
on Dec 28, 2017
New York Daily News
4. Three Actresses Shared The Same Name
When Laura Ingalls was alive, it wasn’t an uncommon thing at all for several people to share the same first name. After all, her sister Carrie is named after her mother, Caroline.
But what are the chances that three people on the same television show would all share the same first name? Apparently those chances were high for the cast of Little House on the Prairie, because three of the actresses all had the same name. Not only that, but they all played members of the Ingalls family.
Those actresses were Melissa Gilbert (Laura), Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary), and Melissa Francis (Cassandra). It surely got confusing whenever someone was issuing orders on set!
