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Melissa Gilbert

Melissa Gilbert

Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in movies and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who co-starred as Charles Ingalls's (played by Michael Landon) second daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie (1974-1984). As an adult, she has a very long list of acting, voicework, writing, producing, and directing credits. Melissa, therefore, served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild. On June 9, 2009, her autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir was released.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page (2020)

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura I ...

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When We Last Spoke (2020)

Two sisters are abandoned by their Broadway-bound mother and are left with their grandparents and a cast of kooky characters. A coming-of-age story about family, friends, love, and forgiveness. ...

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Hometown Christmas (2018)

Back in Louisiana for Christmas, Noelle Collins has big plans to resurrect the town's live nativity, a beloved tradition that her late mother used to put on. Things become complicated, however, when Noelle runs into her high school sweetheart, Nick Russell ...

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Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas (2014)

Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes ...

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The Christmas Pageant (2011)

Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leaving her no choice but to take a gig directing a small town Christmas pageant in upstate New York. Stunned at how basic the production is, Vera attempts to b ...

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Safe Harbour (2007)

Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating loss of Pip' ...

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Sacrifices of the Heart (2007)

Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older broth ...

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Thicker Than Water (2005)

After the death of her father, Natalie Travers discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie's mother. Upset that her father kept part of his life a secret from her and bewildered over how a prominent judge could fall for a cowgirl, sh ...

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Heart of the Storm (2004)

On the eve of a hurricane threatening New Orleans a dangerous convict escapes from prison with two accomplices. When the high winds and flooding disrupt their escape plan they're forced to take shelter in the remote bayou home of Cassie and her two daughte ...

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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)

A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. ...

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments. ...

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Sanctuary (2001)

A famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, has been being stalked for quite some time. She returns to the island she grew up on in an effort to get away from the stalker and get some well-needed relaxation time. On the island, she meets up with old friends ...

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Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)

A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best frie ...

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A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle (2000)

When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one believes her and she is disowned by her mother. Years later and now a mother herself she drifts from town to t ...

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Switched at Birth (1999)

Sarah Barlow and Linda Wells are two mothers who give birth on the same day in the same hospital. Eighteen months later, a DNA test proves the infants were switched at birth by the hospital. ...

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The Soul Collector (1999)

Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the angel of the death helped him to make the transition between ...

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Her Own Rules (1998)

Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old, after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave, and ...

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Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America. ...

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Childhood Sweetheart? (1997)

After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded killer? ...

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Seduction in a Small Town (1997)

A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children. When they desperately search for the source of the rumors about them, their suspicions lead them to a young woman who recently arrive ...

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A Holiday for Love (1996)

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom. ...

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Cries from the Heart (1994)

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school. ...

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Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story (1994)

Carrie Buck is a young intellectually disabled woman who is persuaded to fight against the courts for custody of her newborn daughter after it's taken from her since Carrie has been declared mentally incompetent to raise her baby by herself. ...

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The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story (1994)

Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unusual treatments. ...

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House of Secrets (1993)

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as she begins to believe that her husband has come back from the dead ...

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Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story (1993)

A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child. Instead of debilitating her, it only motivates the lawyer to fight harder to change California's inadequate child-molestation laws. ...

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Dying to Remember (1993)

A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Franc ...

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With Hostile Intent (1993)

After police officer Miranda Berkley dumps her boyfriend, who's also her superior, she and her colleague Kathy Arnold constantly are harassed by their male co-workers. In everyday as well as in dangerous situations they don't get any support. The women see ...

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Family of Strangers (1993)

Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape. ...

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With a Vengeance (1992)

A woman frightened by her nightmares hires a private investigator to look into her past, only to find her fears are becoming reality. ...

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Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love (1991)

A tribute to one of Hollywood's most beloved and respected actors. ...

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The Lookalike (1990)

A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter ...

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Donor (1990)

Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs away but has an accident and dies. Kristine tries to find out more about this man, but discovers that all ...

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Joshua's Heart (1990)

A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded. ...

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Forbidden Nights (1990)

Judith Shapiro's dream has come true. Due to the process of opening to the west in China she has been invited to stay for two years in Shang Sa, Hunan as a school teacher. As soon as she arrives she has to deal with problems such as only cold water to wash ...

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Without Her Consent (1990)

Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance. ...

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Chameleons (1989)

Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he was a costumed superhero in his spare time, half of a duo calling itself "Captain Chameleon and the Paracle ...

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Ice House (1989)

Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When he meet ...

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Funny (1988)

People are asked to tell their favorite jokes. ...

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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide (1988)

Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs. ...

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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987)

A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don. ...

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Choices (1986)

A 19 year old girl suddenly finds herself pregnant. Not wanting to face motherhood or dealing with the consequences of a child, she contemplates an abortion without the knowledge of her boyfriend. However, her father, a retired 62 year old judge discovers ...

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Sylvester (1985)

Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion. ...

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Family Secrets (1984)

Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever. ...

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Little House: The Last Farewell (1984)

While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero Township. They are inspired by Laura to vent their anger at this injustice. ...

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Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (1983)

During preparation for Christmas baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by the woman who recently lost her child. Looking for her Laura, Almanzo and Mr Edwards meet lonely orphan boy, who finally stays with that woman. ...

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Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (1983)

Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Meanwhile children from school are preparing for their traditional climbing of the mountain. ...

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Choices of the Heart (1983)

Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen ...

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Night of 100 Stars (1982)

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution ...

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Hollywood’s Children (1982)

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell). ...

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Splendor in the Grass (1981)

Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day. ...

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The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)

The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II. ...

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The Little House Years (1979)

Laura Ingalls reminisces about the Ingalls' journeys and struggles during a family Thanksgiving gathering. ...

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The Miracle Worker (1979)

The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off fr ...

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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978)

Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Disney's Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Disney. These are some of the titles of the Disney anthology series that first aired as Disneyland in 1954. R ...

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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)

Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951. ...

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Little House on the Prairie (1974)

The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home. ...

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The Dean Martin Christmas Show (1968)

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends. ...

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The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)

Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not a ...

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Movies Made By Melissa Gilbert (1)

Guest Artist (2019)

Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his hero to be the icon he'd idolized. However, Harris wa ...

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