Posted on 12/30/2020 1:14:17 PM PST by mowowie
Dawn Wells, the girl-next-door actress and former beauty queen who played the sweet Mary Ann Summers on the iconic CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island, died Tuesday. She was 82.
Wells died in Los Angeles of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist announced.
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I was, and still am, a Mary Ann guy. Sorry to hear the news.
It’s a sad day.
Bummer - I’d take Maty Ann over Ginger any day.
Too bad they had to get the “Covid” plug in.
2020 started out with Neil Peart dead. Now ends with Mary Ann passing away. Of course it would.
bummer, who has survived thus far ?
“bummer, who has survived thus far ?”
Keith Richards (sorry to state the obvious)
“Too bad they had to get the “Covid” plug in”
correct maybe she was suffocated by a mask or from a vac who knows.
It is a Hollywood leftie report
no kidding..
ditto.
I think Tina Louise, who played Ginger Grant, is the only surviving cast member.
I had no idea Dawn Wells was 82 years old, she always looked younger than her years.
Never saw Richards on G’s Island
Ginger is still alive
Of the original cast, that leaves only Tina Louise ("Ginger").
Regards,
When did Maynard G die
That leaves Tina Louise as the winner of the “last to leave the Island” contest.
All the other seven cast members have passed.
Ms. Wells once told a story that she had no idea how popular the show was until she decided to vacation overseas in a remote country. She began walking along the beach and one of the natives came running up to her yelling “Mary Ann! Mary Ann!”
Everyone who knew her said she had a bubbly and sweet personality. The girl you saw on camera wasn’t apparently all that different than in real life.
RIP, “Mary Ann”.
Team Mary Ann my whole life
RIP
Never mind
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Yeah - and she aged really well - the pics are just as I remember her...
I took a look and found some of her as an older woman but none were making her look old and wrinkled - she may have been one of the well-preserved .
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