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 ...

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers on the classic TV show "Gilligan's Island," has died from COVID-19 at the age of 82.

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.

Throughout history, we've seen a series of remarkable individuals pop up out of the blue to grace the world with wild inventions. Whether we're talking about something as silly yet highly ...

(The Skipper), Bob Denver (Gilligan), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), and Russell Johnson (The Professor) appeared in the episode "Somewhere Over the Rerun," where Alf has a dream that he is stuck on the ...

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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 ...