Facts you DON'T know about Michael Landon, the story 33 years after his death

He had penetrating eyes and behind his pretty, good-boy smile he hid a life full of sadness. Michael Landon left early at the age of 54, a prisoner of liver and pancreatic cancer, but the sometimes sweet, sometimes sappy Little House on the Prairie remained for always in the memory of several generations from all over the world and also his character of Charles Ingals, that father figure of a clan settled in Minnesota. In this video you will learn details about his life that you did not know. Eugene Mauriz Rovitz was born on October 31, 1936 In her childhood and youth she suffered from anti-Semitism. She also suffered from the hostile climate at home. Her parents had a violent relationship. Her mother tried to commit suicide one summer weekend by drowning in the sea. Michael went into the water and rescued her. That was not her only attempted suicide, he became a lonely and uncommunicative boy who took refuge in comic magazines and in sports he became a collegiate champion in javelin throwing. That sporting ability allowed him to get a university scholarship but he only lasted a year there, then he entered the Warner Bros acting school while working at a service station in a few months he achieved his goal, they saw him and hired him for small roles in minor films his most important role was that of being a father more than an actor his main role was The father had nine children from three marriages, he was always a present father, said his daughter Jennifer in an interview, he stayed for an entire hour watching us jump around the pool. I think he really enjoyed it. I felt that he admired me. It's a wonderful feeling. When you're a child. As she herself explained, she only wanted to provide them with the happiness that he never had in his childhood since he lost his innocence too early. Furthermore, motorcycle racing was not his only interest. In his adolescence, he broke the record for javelin throwing when he was in high school and He obtained a scholarship to the University of Southern California, however he had to abandon his studies after tearing the ligaments in his shoulder, so he could not continue with the sport. His stage name, as incredible as it may seem, took him out of the phone book and although the series of television will show us the most sweetened part of the life of this family from the American Midwest in the 19th century. The truth is that a good part was censored. At least the story that Laura Engals told 18 6 to 1954 was much less sweetened because it explained in In his autobiography , for example, his father was actually a grumpy man with a special genius for avoiding paying the rent. Although Landon may not have had any problems paying the rent, his life was not free of controversies and scandals. He was a very vain man. He always wore boots with The platform to look taller also required that any injury he received as part of the Little House on the Prairie script be on his torso so he could show off his muscles and from a very young age he had his hair and he also had an affair with his makeup artist on the set. from Little House on the Prairie Her name was Cindy Clerico who would later become Mrs. Landon and his third wife married three times and had nine children His last wife was the makeup artist at Little House on the Prairie and Michael was more than 20 years after her, this relationship suffered her popularity since the scandal went against the values ​​promoted by the historic series. Another detail of her life is that in Bonanza her problems with drinking came to light, as well as her addiction to tranquilizers. Thanks to family support, he overcame so much so that Cindy also maintains that he was a loving father to all of his children. The formula for success seems to have been learned on Bonanza. That was his school. He could have kept the success. The thousands of weekly letters that fans sent him with his extraordinary salary and the collateral benefits that come with a television Boom extended over the years, but he wanted more. He not only used the people's affection as an argument to improve his contract year after year, but he also wanted to open the television monster and see what it was like for inside to learn what the mechanism was that put it into operation after Bonanza he chose the series called the engals family the creative decisions would be his total control, scriptwriter director and executive producer had to work hard to convince the Channel executives that they adapted the book written by Laura Engals in 1935 and that took place in 1880 to House on the Prairie, it seemed like a good idea, they didn't see why that was the case. could become a success, much less without other well-known faces. London was also in charge of the casting and discovered, among others, Melissa Hilbert, the fictional Laura Ingals. The series had 9 years of success between family dramas and messages that urged love and life in family after the series went off the air there was a continuation without him as the main actor but pulling the strings behind the camera they also filmed three television movies in that final year when they decided to cancel the program no one dared to communicate the news Landon, known for defending his products with Fury, found out before the official confirmation. Melissa Hilbert, in her memoirs, says that with anger over the abuse she planned revenge for the last chapter of Los Ingals, she imagined a millionaire who would come to keep her lands, the family and the other residents decided to set fire to their houses, leaving scorched earth so that those who arrived would not enjoy their effort. Beyond the end of the series, that argument worked as an excuse for Michael Lon to carry out his revenge, the channel could no longer reuse its sets or any scenographic element as was usually done the next bet was the series Road to Heaven again the discussions and the request for more forceful, more dizzying stories with more dirt on the part of the executives Landon resisted and imposed his idea aspirational stories in which An angel made people win heaven. The channel at least wanted a strong counterfigure, a young and recognized face. Landon's obstinacy prevailed again and his partner was Victor French, his bearded close friend who had already acted in the Ingals French family. He fell ill with lung cancer and died in 1989. Road to Heaven continued a little longer without him. The program had very good ratings until 1989. During 1988, the drop in audience numbers was very noticeable. Landon wanted to resist, but the channel announced a brief final season. and the closing of the story thus ended 30 consecutive years of success. Michael Landon left NBC that alliance that seemed indestructible. Some details of what Landon was like as an actor and some vices that were very notorious. He had problems with alcohol and with the excess of some medications. During his first years of success in the filming seasons, he smoked four packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. The actors who worked with him remember him as affable, very cheerful and supportive, but also with unusual levels of demand and epic anger if things didn't go well. They came out well in the filming, he had a complex about his height. So he tried to wear shoes with platforms to pretend to be taller. Since he had artistic control of his programs, he designed scenes in which he had to show off his physical work and there was always a good opportunity for the character. Charles Singal was shirtless, one of his greatest prides was his hair, which he cared for with devotion. They were concocted hairstyles that must have involved several hours of work before each day of filming. Perhaps that obsession settled in him during the days of Bonanza. Michael Landon was the only one of the four main actors who did not use toupee, already sick in his agony as it could not be otherwise. He was displayed on the screen on television on the Johnny Carson show, announced the diagnosis and also warned that he was going to fight. live every minute, said the fragments of that interview that can be seen on YouTube, the actor's fortitude is striking, his good humor his positive attitude, the news shocked the environment during those few months between the discovery of cancer and his death, the topic did not even come up. of television programs or current affairs magazines, appearing at Johnny Carson's was not exhibitionism or an attack of irrational Hope. The news of his illness had leaked to the media, rumors, speculation and journalistic guards overwhelmed him and with this public emergence and unveiling of breast cancer pancreas wanted to be allowed to spend his last days in peace the disease manifested itself at the beginning of April 1991 he told it before the cameras a month later on July 1, 1991 he died in his mansion in Malibu he was 54 years old his assets reached 100 million of dollars a couple of years ago a researcher proposed a disturbing theory that Michael Landon's cancer could have a connection with the place where the Ingals family filmed, the place that the production diligently searched for was 20 km from the Santa Susana nuclear laboratory, a place where atomic tests were carried out in the towns near the laboratory and testing center, the cases of cancer patients far exceeded the average of other areas with similar climate and geography. 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