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Tina Louise, last surviving ‘Gilligan’s Island’ star, reveals truth about Dawn Wells
New York Post ^ | December 30, 2020 | Doree Leewak

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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Tina sounds pretty cool too.
1 posted on 12/31/2020 6:58:42 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Class act.


2 posted on 12/31/2020 7:04:22 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: CheshireTheCat

Classy


3 posted on 12/31/2020 7:05:39 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: redrhino47

I would harder her multiple tie


4 posted on 12/31/2020 7:05:44 PM PST by shadeaud (We have to discover the real truth and who did all the funding. This is American ....Defend it)
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Bump


5 posted on 12/31/2020 7:07:45 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: CheshireTheCat

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...”


6 posted on 12/31/2020 7:07:56 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: shadeaud

“I would harder her multiple tie”

Really? Who knew?


7 posted on 12/31/2020 7:10:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: shadeaud

I’ve heard that fried gleeps go well with multiple tie.


8 posted on 12/31/2020 7:13:30 PM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: Mr Rogers

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.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 7:15:18 PM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: shadeaud

10 posted on 12/31/2020 7:15:54 PM PST by EEGator
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To: CheshireTheCat

Ginger to bed, Mary Ann to wed.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 7:16:40 PM PST by Thilly Thailor
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To: Paladin2

12 posted on 12/31/2020 7:17:26 PM PST by EEGator
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To: CheshireTheCat

If she had taken Ivermectin within 48rs of onset, she might be alive today.


13 posted on 12/31/2020 7:19:53 PM PST by LibFreeUSA ( )
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To: LibFreeUSA

Or, HCQ.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 7:20:20 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow,)
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To: EEGator

Many thanks for the laugh.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 7:21:00 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: Thilly Thailor

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.


16 posted on 12/31/2020 7:21:29 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

My pleasure.


17 posted on 12/31/2020 7:27:21 PM PST by EEGator
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To: CheshireTheCat

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.


18 posted on 12/31/2020 7:30:10 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Mr Rogers

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.


19 posted on 12/31/2020 7:37:22 PM PST by oldvirginian (The glass isn't half full, it's half empty because the damned thing is cracked and leaking)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Nice tribute from Tina Louise. RIP Dawn Wells.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 7:37:52 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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