The ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Star Who Left Hollywood For Harvard (VIDEO)
Posted on 11/28/2016 4:45:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Melissa Francis of Fox Business grew up a free-market conservative in Los Angeles. As told in her 2012 book , her engineer father tucked her into bed the night the family gathered to watch her first appearance on Little House on the Prairie.
"Yes, you can be the first lady president. Or whatever you want. Whatever makes you happy. That's what is so great about our country. It's a free society with a free market …
"Someday I will tell you about Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations[.] … [I]t's about the Invisible Hand."
Missy Francis worked from age one through high school as an actress. At Harvard College, she earned $25 an hour as a tech assistant at the business school, but not before making do with a food prep job in the kitchen beneath Eliot House. She never worked less than 40 hours a week her junior and senior years. Chopping veggies and teaching MBA kids about the internet, and a paid internship at PBS, resulted in a substantial $15,000 savings when she left college for the $6.10/hour entry-level world of TV news in Maine.
The economic path from Little House to TV news is partly the subject of Missy's book. On the surface, hers is a story of determination. But as the title says, there's an antagonist. Mom is a monster, "the queen of slamming down the phone," as she did when Missy called home to tell Mom she had gotten a coveted unpaid summer internship at NBC in Washington, D.C.
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This is crap. I’ve rarely read such a poorly written piece.
I like Melissa Francis, but I doubt her father was telling her bedtime stories about Adam Smith, or that she would have remembered in such detail even if he had.
I have always loved her.
She was pivotal in my psycho-sexual development.
To this day, I find chaste women the hottest of the hot!
You should read the book. It is very good.
The Invisible Hand always seemed a little creepy to me.
“I’ve rarely read such a poorly written piece.”
That made me laugh. I was thinking the exact same thing.
I think that is a picture of Melissa Gilbert. Right show, wrong Mellisa. I think....I could be wrong.
Melissa Gilbert was Laura, this photo is “Mary”
It is Melissa Anderson the oldest sister
You’re wrong.
Actually the above picture is of Melissa Sue Anderson who played the blind, quiet and good-hearted older sister, Mary Ingalls Kendall, in the hit television show "Little House on the Prairie." Anderson was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1978 for her role, but her acting career after the end of "Little House" in 1983 was more bit than eading lady. (Though she did nab a Daytime Emmy for a 1972 ABC Afterschool Special!).
This is Melissa Francis.
Thanks for pointing out my error. Never really watched the show I must admit.
I can tell you I hardly ever watched it. I was in my late teens and twenties...and even though I dated young ladies, they were past Little House age.
I only knew that because she was talking about it one day and I had to search to find out which one she was.
So I can understand the mistake. I made it myself.
I was only half wrong.
I did not realize until today that they are ALL Melissa..
I wonder how the producers let them get away with this. I would think they would make at least one of them change their name.
I was in my 20’s & 30’s. It was too much of a chick show for my tastes back then, and yes the girls were not of the age that caught my attention for sure.
who is this story about now?
thank goodness pa ain’t around to witness the confusion
That’s Melissa Sue Anderson, not Melissa Francis. (Three Melissas on that show!)
Yep already corrected, see further post down.
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