sex sells" When Gilligan's Island premiered in 1964, the network was worried about two things. "There were network censors back on those days, and they were really strict," Dawn Wells told PEOPLE ...

Her co-star Dawn Wells, who played the chipper and earnest farm girl Mary Ann, was essentially the opposite. She not only returned for several "Gilligan's Island" projects, but even reprised her ...

Dawn Elberta Wells was born on October 18, 1938 in Reno, Nevada, and would graduate from Seattle's University of Washington in 1960 with a degree in theater arts and design. At the same time, she ...

In a March 7 interview with Forbes, Tina Louise — who portrayed the movie star Ginger Grant on the show — revealed that the ...

Gilligan's Island’ star Tina Louise opened up about never experiencing ‘loving situations’ during her troubled childhood ...

Ms. Louise would prefer not to talk about Ginger, her breathy sitcom character from the 1960s. Luckily, to the children she ...

Gilligan's Island Star Tina Louise has lived a quiet life away from Hollywood in recent years, but she was once married to ...

She became a household name when she was cast as movie star Ginger Grant in Gilligan's Island, which debuted in 1964, and while it only ran three seasons, it spawned several TV movie sequels as well.