and why did she marry such a loser ? He was a horrible father and husband, unable to provide for his family.
shareI enjoy watching LHOTP, i thought Charles was a good father, when his farm work dried up he always tried to get work elsewhere so he could provide for his family.
shareI think it was because he was so trusting and gullible and was always going away from home for extended periods. Then she could have fun with various traveling handymen like Chris Nelson. It was a tradeoff that she was ok with.
shareGil Gerard (Chris) was quite handsome in that era. He started to put on weight in the second season of Buck Rodgers though. The same happened to William Shatner in the later seasons of Star Trek.
shareBecause if she married someone else, then she would not be a co-star and the studio wouldn't have paid her as much.
shareI've read that she was the lucky one, a homely girl who snagged a handsome man. Charles provided just fine until Kansas. The loss of that home really seemed to break him. Of course, he's not responsible for the grasshopper plagues in Minnesota. And many settlers failed to make a go of farming in the Dakotas. Between the wind and the dryness, conditions were just too harsh.
shareHe didn't provide "just fine". They never had money. I didn't watch a lot but I remember when the girls were finally going to school, a few pennies for what they needed seemed alike a lot. They couldn't even have their own "slates" (whatever they were) they had to share, and they couldn't afford a pencil. The girls had to wear dresses made from itchy potato sack and I believe they each only had one or two dresses.
They probably would have more if he would have gotten a steady job, but from what I understood, he never wanted to.
Heh heh. I was talking about the real people, not the tv characters. But the girls never wore itchy potato sack dresses. That was from an episode where they were play-acting while trying to sell elixirs to raise money for a better Bible for Rev. Alden's birthday.
shareThe episode I saw, the mother was in the store and she was looking at pretty dress material. The snobby woman directed her to the potato sack material, saying that was "her material". The mother spent more than she should have to buy the good material and later was apologizing to Charles, offering to take it back.
share"Country Girls." Caroline was admiring the blue dress fabric. Mrs. Oleson suggested a cheaper, plainer fabric was more in Caroline's budget. Caroline bought the blue fabric to prove she was not poor. She used it to make new dresses for the girls so they would look nice at School Presentation Day.
shareI wouldn’t say Caroline was homely. Certainly not by the prevailing standards in Walnut Creek at the time. She had a pretty face and a great figure.
shareWell, Caroline was already pregnant with Mary and since her high school sweetheart skipped town once he realized Caroline was knocked up, Caroline had to do some fast thinking and scheming. She was like "Who is dumb enough to believe a baby can be birthed five months after a wedding?" Well, we have the answer. Sure, he couldn't provide for her or her later kids that weren't his either, but she liked Charles' sojourns to find work so she could enjoy the affairs with anyone she crossed paths with. He was the definition of a cuckold!
sharewell it seems like that becasue the real charles was irresponsible.
shareHe had a nice full head of hair?
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