CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Exclusive Portraits: Melissa Gilbert Still Wows Them on the Prairie
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CHICAGO – Melissa Gilbert has grown up a bit since portraying Laura Ingalls on the 1970s TV classic “Little House on the Prairie,” but her roots aren’t far behind. She’s just released “My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours,” and appeared last month at North Central College in Naperville, Ill. – at an event sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop – to greet admirers and sign her new menu planner.
Melissa Gilbert at North Central College in Naperville, September 18th, 2014
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
From 1974 to 1983, Gilbert starred as Laura Ingalls as a child – Ingalls eventually grew up and wrote the “Little House on the Prairie” series of books – and the NBC-TV show also famously featured Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson, Alison Arngrim and Merlin Olsen. Landon also executive produced the show, and was so convinced that Gilbert was the right choice he sent no other screen tests to NBC. Of the 204 episodes produced, Gilbert appeared in 191 of them, more than any other cast member.
Photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took these Exclusive Portraits at the book signing event in September, billed as “In Conversation with Melissa Gilbert.”
Melissa Gilbert Strikes a Glamor Pose at the Event, Sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
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