Dawn Wells, Rest in Peace

[Timothy]

Mary Ann has left the building!  Man was she hot when I was 9 or 10 years old!

RIP

[Pathfinder]

Yeah, I always preferred her to the other lady who was too flashy, too obvious. Sad, but then she was 82. Great memories though.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/gilligans-island-dawn-wells-dead

[PegLeg45]

Mary Ann has left the building!  Man was she hot when I was 9 or 10 years old!

RIP

Shoot, you're older than me and she was still hot when I was ten years old.

[Dirty Bob]

RIP Dawn! I'll always picture you as Mary Ann.

I always preferred Mary Ann! Dawn Wells also seems to have been quite a wonderful person. IIRC, she took care of Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Howell) in the last years of Natalie's life. She remained friends with Alan Hale Jr. (the Skipper) until his death.

Tina Louise (Ginger Grant) always hated being type-cast as Ginger and sought out darker roles that were nothing like the part she played on Gilligan's Island. The last thing I saw her in was the low budget (but really fun!) werewolf flick Late Phases, with a werewolf preying on people in a retirement community on the edge of a wooded area. A blind veteran loses his dog to an attack, realizes what it was, and that he has one month to get ready to kill a werewolf.
 
So I think Tina Louise is the last of the 7 castaways. It's interesting to read about the show. It was filmed on the studio backlot, near the "prison camp" for Hogan's Heroes, IIRC. I remember hearing that the unheated "lagoon" was always miserably cold, so some shooting days could be tough for the cast members!

[alfsauve]

Class act.  RIP

Yesterday one network did a montage of celebs who died in 2020. So many, so sad. 

If I had to pick two, Chuck Yeager and Diana Rigg.

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[MikeBjerum]

The amazing thing about this is that Tina Louise (Ginger) is the last surviving cast away.  The only cast member that wished they had not take the role, and who avoided some of the reunion movies.