She may have been relegated, along with Russell Johnson's the Professor, to part of "and the rest" on the season 1 theme song of Gilligan's Island, but Dawn Wells' Mary Ann Summers instantly became ...

Dawn Wells, who parlayed her girl-next-door charm and wholesome beauty into enduring TV fame as the sweet-natured desert island castaway Mary Ann on the classic 1960s sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died ...

Gilligan’s Island fans likely can’t imagine a scenario in which Mary Ann wasn’t part of the group stranded on a deserted island. Mary Ann, played by Dawn Wells, stole the hearts of fans for all three ...

"Gilligan's Island" captivated TV audiences in the 1960s, earning it the status of a TV classic. Here is the only main cast ...

Back in the 60s, when Dawn Wells played Mary Ann, everybody’s girl-next-door, on “Gilligan’s Island,” her short-shorts were considered a bit scandalous. While visiting Seattle for a book tour Monday, ...

On Gilligan’s Island, every character played a crucial role in making the show successful and it is hard to believe that any other actors could have played the roles of the seven castaways. It may be ...

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, the a beloved TV show from the '60s, followed seven cast-aways on an island, a plot that executives of ...

Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson had a special connection from the start of Gilligan’s Island. While the five other characters stranded on that uncharted desert isle were called out individually during ...

Who was the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ cast? In September 1964, Sherwood Schwartz’s TV comedy Gilligan’s Island premiered on CBS. The series about a group of seven different castaways became an instant hit.

Dawn Wells, best known for playing eternal good girl Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island, has died. She was 82. Wells died Wednesday as a result of complications from COVID-19. Her publicist ...