Speaking to Woman’s World, Little House co-stars Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler reflected on working with Landon and how his past influenced the heart of the beloved series.
“Michael Landon himself, his home life was not happy,” Arngrim revealed on Wednesday, December 3. “He had a miserable childhood, and he talked openly about how difficult his parents were. He was looking for the kind of real family and real love and connection that the show exemplified.”
“I think there was this desire in the community to be pushing forward to something that hasn’t been done,” Butler said. “I think Michael, because of his experience on Bonanza and seeing how it resonated with people, was not afraid to keep shining a light backward and illuminating a path that had not been illuminated in this way before. He had no fear of that. And I think he just intuitively understood that there was an ongoing craving for this.”
“No one understood what they were trying to do on Little House better than Michael did. People talk about vision for shows and who’s really the creative force behind something, and he was so moved that he had to acquire the books and have them developed for television,” Butler added.
Landon passed away in 1991 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, leaving fans heartbroken. Decades later, his legacy still lives on.
“This was not a perfect human being by any stretch,” Butler said. “He was a very full, richly diverse human being, but he understood what his job was and that was to create something that multiple generations of people could experience together. Something that would be foundational in terms of its goodness with people, values and morals—that would be crystal clear. There was very little nuance and ambiguity in what he was doing.”
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