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Post by flyaway on Sept 2, 2018 11:39:06 GMT -5
  Am I crazy, but does this look like Rachel Longaker/Aimee Godsey? It's Jena Engstrom on a 1961 episode of Gunsmoke
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Post by Kyle on Sept 3, 2018 15:12:59 GMT -5
With the blonde hair, she does resemble Rachel Longaker. I remember seeing her with brunette hair, and then the resemblance isn’t so strong.
Speaking of Rachel Longaker, does anyone know why she was replaced by another actress in the 1982 TV movies? It was very disappointing because Rachel was truly one of the better child actors on the series. I never understood why she wasn’t utilized more as the other children on the show grew up. Aimee was a Walton cousin, after all, and Elizabeth’s best friend. I would have greatly preferred to see more of her, as opposed to Jeffrey and Serena.
Instead, we saw her less and less in the later seasons. And then we had to have the replacement actress and the horrible new characterization in the 1982 movies. I was very happy to see her back for that cameo in the 1993 Thanksgiving movie.
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Post by nedandres on Sept 3, 2018 16:15:07 GMT -5
Rachel has said that she left the show after her family relocated from the LA area. That’s why Aimee was written out.
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Post by goodnight on Sept 3, 2018 19:16:14 GMT -5
Does anyone remember Rachel Longaker in an Afterschool Special called My Mother Was Never A Kid? A girl is sent back in time to when her mother was her age which was 13 or 14. And the mother as a teen during WW2 was played by Rachel. The mother as an adult was played by Holland Taylor, who played the aunt of JohnBoy's wife Janet.
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Post by Kyle on Sept 3, 2018 19:55:27 GMT -5
I don’t, but I do remember her in the “My Mom’s Having a Baby” afterschool special (and its sequel, “Where Do Teenagers Come From?”)
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Post by carol on Sept 3, 2018 22:58:43 GMT -5
Nothing against DeAnna Robbins who replaced her in the movies but they could have picked an actress closer to Rachel's age. De Anna was 7 years older than Kami and Rachel.
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Post by coffeebooks321 on Sept 4, 2018 10:25:31 GMT -5
Does anyone remember Rachel Longaker in an Afterschool Special called My Mother Was Never A Kid? A girl is sent back in time to when her mother was her age which was 13 or 14. And the mother as a teen during WW2 was played by Rachel. The mother as an adult was played by Holland Taylor, who played the aunt of JohnBoy's wife Janet. I love that one. It's available somewhere on Youtube |
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Post by goodnight on Sept 4, 2018 12:17:22 GMT -5
Does anyone remember Rachel Longaker in an Afterschool Special called My Mother Was Never A Kid? A girl is sent back in time to when her mother was her age which was 13 or 14. And the mother as a teen during WW2 was played by Rachel. The mother as an adult was played by Holland Taylor, who played the aunt of JohnBoy's wife Janet. I love that one. It's available somewhere on Youtube Yes I looked for it on Youtube after I posted this. I think it came out in 1980, so I would have been about 14. |
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Post by Brenda on Sept 4, 2018 14:44:11 GMT -5
I saw Rachel in the “Little Women” episode of LHOTP recently.
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Post by rickking on Sept 1, 2020 14:32:50 GMT -5
When Ike and Corabeth first brought Aimee home, I was afraid she was going to be another Nellie Oleson! But she turned out to be a delightful young lady! Yes, the actress that took Rachel Longaker's place in the two reunion movies was all wrong for the part, but I really liked the original Aimee.
And she was an excellent young actress, as well. I can recall seeing her make facial expressions that were totally appropriate to the situation!
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