then a teenager who was working as a stand-in for his co-star Melissa Francis (Cassandra Cooper Ingalls). The 18-year-old woman was more than 20 years Landon’s junior. Michael Landon had an ...

Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis, known for her role as Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie," writes about how her success was fueled by pressure from her mother in ...

She is, after all, one of the few to successfully survive being a child star — as Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the TV series “Little House on the Prairie” — only to wind up back on the ...

CNBC anchor Melissa Francis had a graceful fall, though. In the early 1980s, she played Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" and went on to appear on other shows. The ...

She played the roll of Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the show, alongside co-stars Micahel Landon and Melissa Gilbert. But Francis' life at home was anything but idyllic. In her new book, Diary of s ...

It was because he was having an affair with Clerico, a woman 20 years his junior, who worked as a stand-in for child actor Melissa Francis (Cassandra Cooper Ingalls). Landon spoke to Clerico ...

It was because he was having an affair with 18-year-old Cindy Clerico, a woman 20 years his junior, who worked as a stand-in for Melissa Francis (Cassandra Cooper Ingalls). Landon spoke to Clerico ...

Francis, now a broadcast news journalist, once played Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the television show Little House on the Prairie. By the time she landed the plum role she was already a television ...