Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Melissa Sue Anderson, Acclaimed Actress and Star of “Little House on the Prairie”.
Melissa Sue Anderson is a popular actress who is perhaps best remembered for her Emmy nominated portrayal of “Mary Ingalls” on the iconic TV series, “Little House on the Prairie”.
In fact, she’s the ONLY cast member of that show to be nominated for an Emmy award in the acting category. But beyond her work on “Little House”, Melissa Sue Anderson has appeared in a number of feature films including “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, “Dead Men Don’t Die”, and “Happy Birthday to Me”, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
She’s also guest starred in dozens of TV shows including “The Brady Brunch”, “Shaft”, “Fantasy Island”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Hotel”, “The Equalizer”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “Burke’s Law”, “Partners” and many more. And she’s appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries including “The Loneliest Runner”, “Survival of Dana”, “Midnight Offerings”, “An Innocent Love”, “First Affair”, “Dark Mansions”, “Memories of Manon”, “Earthquake in New York”, “10 Point 5: Apocalypse” and many more. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in an episode of the ABC After School Special called “Which Mother is Mine”.
In 1980, Melissa Sue Anderson won a ‘TP de Oro’ Award, considered to be Spain’s most prestigious award for television, for ‘Best Foreign Actress’ for her performance in “Little House on the Prairie”. She was also nominated for a Photoplay Award in 1977 for Favorite Child Star, and together with her “Little House” cast mates, she won a Western Heritage Award for Best Fictional Television Drama, and in 1998 she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame.
In 2010, she wrote a highly compelling and insightful memoir entitled “The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House”.
And if all of that weren’t enough, in 2008, she was nominated for a TV Land Award in the category of “Favorite Character You Would Pay to do Your Homework for You”.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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