Melissa Sue Anderson will always be best-know as Little House on the Prairie‘s beleaguered big sister Mary Ingalls. But the blond, blue-eyed beauty, who sometimes dropped the Sue from her name, had a much longer career than that. She was a popular guest star on other series and TV movies in the ’70s and ’80s, especially those aimed at kids and teens. From Afterschool Specials to The Brady Bunch (where Anderson had her first onscreen kiss) to Fantasy Island and The Love Boat, Anderson, now 62, was in demand, until she left acting to raise her two kids.

Here are a few more things you may not know about Melissa Sue Anderson.