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Exclusive Interview with Former “Little House” Child Star MELISSA FRANCIS on Memoir, “Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter”

By Editor Tracy Bobbitt|2013-02-11T06:00:28-08:00February 11th, 2013|Categories: Cautionary Tales, CHILD ACTORS, Exclusive Interviews, Former Child Stars, THE BUZZ|Tags: abused child stars, Actors, Amy Chua, Ariel Winter, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, bipolar, Book Club Members, Child Actor, children actors, Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter, emancipated child stars, Great Books for Book Clubs, Hollywood Moms, Jason Bateman, melissa francis, melissa gilbert, Michael Landon, Missy Francis, Momager, parents of child actors, stage moms, young actors|2 Comments

I'd just completed reading "Diary of a Stage's Mother's Daughter: A Memoir," and I was equal parts disturbed, curious and excited to speak with it's author, Melissa Francis, host of Fox News' Money with Melissa. To the uninitiated, Melissa was a working child actor of the 1980's (known then as Missy Francis) who most notably