Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Actress Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on the popular 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” has died at the age of 82. Her publicist announced her death to several media outlets and said it ...

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, ...

It was canceled after three seasons, but its popularity in syndication led to an animated series ( The New Adventures of ...

LOS ANGELES — Editor's Note: The video above is an interview from 2014. Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan's ...

Nearly 20 years after the premiere of Gilligan's Island, stars Bob Denver and Dawn Wells reunited in a Michael J. Fox comedy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson had a special connection from the start of Gilligan’s Island. While the five other characters ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Fans of the classic sitcom "Gilligan's Island" will recall that there were two versions of the main theme song "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, ...

Dawn Elberta Wells was born Oct. 18, 1938, in Reno, Nevada. Wells was Miss Nevada and competed in the 1960 Miss America pageant. She was cast as Mary Ann Summers in "Gilligan's Island" in 1964. Wells ...