Melissa Gilbert

She named her son after Michael Landon, her mentor on Little House. Helen Hayes died on March 17, 1993 and was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York. She is the older half-sister of Roseanne star Sara Gilbert. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. Gilbert is married to Bruce Boxleitner. Hayes wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On Reflection and My Life in Three Acts. As a former child actor, she is best known for her role of Laura Ingalls on the television series Little House on the Prairie and for her term as president of the Screen Actors Guild which she won after a bitter election with Valerie Harper. She followed that up with several roles in Disney films such as Herbie Rides Again, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing and Candleshoe.

Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. She starred in My Son John and Anastasia, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for Airport. She returned to Hollywood in the 1950s, and her film star began to rise. Eventually, a theater was named in her honor. Hayes and MacArthur eventually returned to Broadway, and she starred for three years in Virginia Regina.

But she never became a fan favorite. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith, A Farewell to Arms, The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows and Vanessa: Her Love Story. Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. By 10, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but she only moved to Hollywood when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal.

Born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, DC, she began a stage career at an early age. She was eventually to garner the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater". Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years.