Little House on the Prairie still resonates 50 years later, but did you know it also gave rise to perhaps one of the youngest method actors in TV history?
According to co-star Charlotte Stewart, who played beloved schoolteacher Miss Beadle on the hit 1970s series, then-9-year-old Melissa Gilbert was surprisingly devoted to her craft.
“She was so good,” Stewart said on the June 17 episode of The Patrick LabyorSheaux podcast. “She was so believable. She was so, I don't even have the words for it. I was so impressed with her.”
Even as a child, Stewart said Gilbert had the emotional range and on-camera instincts of a pro.
“There were several times when Laura [Gilbert] and Miss Beadle would interact, and she was so good,” Stewart recalled. “She would look at me with eyes [like] she believed that Miss Beadle was the best teacher ever. So the audience believed that Miss Beadle was the best teacher ever.”
Host and fellow Little House alum Labyorteaux chimed in, saying that watching the scenes between Gilbert and Stewart made viewers “fall in love with both of you.”
Stewart agreed: “She was already a method actor,” she said of Gilbert.
Later in the interview, Stewart shared a memory from her audition for the show. Expecting a standard casting call, she arrived in a tie-dye T-shirt and jeans — only to be surrounded by bonnet-wearing hopefuls fully dressed for the Old West.
“I arrived at Paramount and there's all these women in old west dresses, bonnets and long skirts,” she explained.
Still, she made an impression. Stewart walked into the audition room, took over one of the children’s desks in the scene, and commanded the producers with one word: “Quiet!”
Talk about a power move!
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