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She was adopted the next day by actor and comedian Paul Gilbert [3] and his wife, dancer and actress Barbara Crane, the daughter of The Honeymooners creator Harry Crane. The Gilberts later adopted a son, Jonathan , who co-starred on Little House on the Prairie .
The eldest sibling, Melissa, was born on May 8, 1964, and adopted by Barbara Cowan (née Crane) and Paul Gilbert. Jonathan was born two years later and adopted by Barbara and Paul. The two later...
She is the adopted daughter of actor Paul Gilbert and actress/dancer Barbara Crane (now Barbara Gilbert Cowan); her biological parents each had three children from previous marriages and,...
On May 8, 1964, the future celebrity was born in a Los Angeles hospital called The French Hospital, which no longer exists. When she was only 24 hours old, the star was taken in by Barbara Crane and Paul Gilbert, her adoptive parents. Advertisement. The pair also adopted her younger brother, Jonathan.
Gilbert’s adopted mother, Barbara Crane, had told her that her birth father was a Rhodes Scholar and her birth mother was a prima ballerina. “I learned that David Darlington was a sign...
Melissa Gilbert was adopted when she was just one day old by a well-known Hollywood family. In her memoir, "Prairie Tale," she wrote that she had received differing...
Melissa Gilbert’s Early Years. Melissa Ellen Gilbert was born May 8, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, and adopted by dancer and actress, Barbara Crane, and her husband, comedian Paul Gilbert. Her parents later adopted again, a son named Jonathan, who would go on to play Willie Oleson, Nellie Oleson’s brother on “Little House on the ...