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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You are. This is the actress that played the older sister, Mary, in LHOTP. Melissa Francis, I believe, came onto the show toward the end of its run.
Wow, so many "Melissa"s. Must have been a very popular name at the time these young women were born.
Me too! Which is a shame since AF is usually one of my favorite sites.
Sure seems like it.
I never much cared for the show but my middle sister loved it.
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