“This is the thing that killed two of the strongest, most extraordinarily extraordinary physical specimens of men I'd ever known in my life,” the actress tells PEOPLE Frank Carroll/NBCU Photo Bank; ...

Melissa Gilbert recently paid tribute to actors Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze as part of an effort to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer, which claimed both of their lives. Gilbert, who had a ...

“They're like Michelangelo hands,” recalls Lisa Niemi Swayze, who is working with leading pancreatic cancer nonprofit PanCAN in memory of Patrick Bob Riha, Jr./Getty When Patrick Swayze was diagnosed ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Can you believe it's been 50 years since "Little House on the Prairie" made its debut on NBC? Melissa Gilbert starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder in nine seasons – and three movies – of the ...

“This is the thing that killed two of the strongest, most extraordinarily extraordinary physical specimens of men I'd ever known in my life,” the actress tells PEOPLE Melissa Gilbert doesn’t use the ...