I read that Natalie Schaefer was an old friend of Sherwood Schwartz. She was probably a beauty in her youth but she was actually quite a bit older than the character she played.
Yes, she was in her 60’s while filming Gilligan’s Island. I’ve seen her in some old movies and she was very pretty.
“I read that Natalie Schaefer was an old friend of Sherwood Schwartz. She was probably a beauty in her youth but she was actually quite a bit older than the character she played.”
Schaefer was born in 1900 so she would have been 65 in 1965 which is about the age I think of the charaters.
Speaking of people not playing their age in a show.
Bea Arthur (1922) and Betty White (1922) were both a year older than Estelle Getty (1923). Rue McClanahan was about 12 years younger. The oldest, Betty White at 93 is the only one of the four still with us.