“It was going crazy” Why didn’t Michael Landon be able to play with Katherine Macgregor?

Katherine Macgregor, who played Harriet Oleson in The little house in the meadowhad a way of working that disturbed his playmates, especially Michael Landon who could not support his many improvisations and losses of memory.

Behindstones of The little house in the meadow were hectic. THE Behavior of Michael Landon put tensions on the set and Katherine Macgregor’s working habits made his partners crazy. Indeed, the interpreter of Harriet Oleson had not only for handling to direct his colleagues, but also to change your textwhich had to make Michael Landon crazy.

Katherine Macgregor used to improvise on the set of The little house in the meadow

Alison Arngrim has entrusted many filming secrets of The little house in the meadow in his book Confessions of a Prairie B****. In addition to having revealed that Katherine MacGregor loved to impose his ideas on Richard Bull (Nelson Oleson), Nellie Oleson’s interpreter explained that her colleague had trouble holding back its lines of dialogue.

« She often had problems with her lines. She had obviously learned them well, she even had a huge binder three -rings And in leather, with his name written in gold on the front to hold his script. We repeated each scene before filming and yet it was not uncommon to hear ‘Oh m **** !! What is my sentence already? ‘ »»

Memory holes that annoyed Michael Landon, and that made him even more crazy When she had fun changing the scenario. « Sometimes if she didn’t care about her lines, she simply changed them“. Despite these habits, Katherine Macgregor was an example for Alison Arngrim because she had ” undeniable talent And despite his oversights and improvisations, the scenes were always impeccable and consistent.

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