Gilligan's Island cast member Dawn Wells (as Mary Ann Summers) is shown in this July 21, 1964, file photo. Cbs Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images, FILE Wells remained close with the character and ...

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 ...

Mary Ann Summers was a young woman from Kansas who jumped aboard the S.S. Minnow for a three-hour tour. Mary Ann joined the tour after she won the trip in a radio contest.

Dawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19 complications, her publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to CNN.

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, best known for portraying the girl-next-door castaway Mary Ann Summers on the iconic 1960s CBS sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died Wednesday of complications related to COVID-19.

“Gilligan’s Island” star Dawn Wells, best known for playing Mary Ann Summers on the classic sitcom, is dead at age 82. The Hollywood Reporter reports Wells died in Los Angeles on Wednesday ...