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”.
Some years back, there was a TV movie called, “The Making of Gilligan’s Island.”
It was hosted by Dawn Wells and was almost a semi-documentary.
The movie re-created the time Dawn Wells boarded a commercial airline flight and, while still at the gate, all the other passengers started singing the theme to Gilligan’s Island. I have to admit, I know all the words myself.