Posted on 12/31/2020 6:58:42 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Dawn Wells, the real-life Mary Ann Summers of “Gilligan’s Island,” was just as sunny and down-to-earth off-screen as she was on-screen, her co-star Tina Louise, the show’s only surviving cast member, told The Post Wednesday.
Louise, who played the indelible flame-haired Ginger Grant on the CBS show, spoke fondly of Wells, who died at age 82 Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling COVID-19.
“I’m very sad,” said Louise, who infamously declined to appear in revivals and reboots or discuss the show over the decades since it ended in 1967.
“Dawn was a very wonderful person. I want people to remember her as someone who always had a smile on her face,” said Louise, who lives on Manhattan’s East Side. “Nothing is more important than family and she was family. She will always be remembered.”...
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Class act.
Classy
I would harder her multiple tie
Bump
Tina had issues when the show was filming. Sounds like she finally grew up. Bob Denver once said (paraphrase) “Maybe she should have noticed it wasn’t called Ginger’s Island...”
“I would harder her multiple tie”
Really? Who knew?
I’ve heard that fried gleeps go well with multiple tie.
That was her character. Completely self centered and I am the starlet. That Tina was that way in real life while on the set is well G. . . It was a 30 min. Sit-Com. Maybe she had limited acting skills and needed to be in-character at all times in order to film the scenes.
Ginger to bed, Mary Ann to wed.
If she had taken Ivermectin within 48rs of onset, she might be alive today.
Or, HCQ.
Many thanks for the laugh.
About the time Gilligan’s Island was on, one of my cousins married a girl who could have been a twin of Dawn Wells. Now she’s 78.
My pleasure.
Actually, I remember seeing a little special that Bob Denver and Dawn Wells did with a sort of gossipy tone, and I got the distinct impression that she was an insincere, mealy-mouthed little back-stabber. Dawn Wells, I mean. It was a long time ago, though.
Bob Denver once said that Tina Louise and Russell Johnson (the professor) were quite the couple during shooting. Tina denied it but Johnson never did.
Denver said Johnson wasn’t making the trailer rock by himself.
Nice tribute from Tina Louise. RIP Dawn Wells.
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