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For seven decades, Alison Arngrim performed a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on a single of Television history's most beloved collection. Although an incredible number of Little House on the Prairie audiences disliked Nellie Oleson and her bad tricks, Arngrim increased to adore her character—and the self-confidence and liberty Nellie impressed in her. In Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her odd parents: Thor Arngrim, a skill director to Liberace and others, whose hunger for promotion was pressing, and renowned speech actor Norma MacMillan, who performed equally Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She remembers her most valued and often wickedly humorous times behind-the-scenes of Small House: Michael Landon's "unsaintly" routine of not wearing lingerie; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her Television enemy, Laura Ingalls) became close friends and unintentionally got drunk on rum muffins at 7 eleven; and the only real occasion she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie's mother) appeared in public places in outfit, invoking a posse of primary schoolgirls to strike them.