I was in the Mary Ann camp.
ht/ js
Fur,
When you post the announcement of Mary Ann’s death, I would ask that you post this video that appeared on iOTW several years ago on one of your “Soothiness” threads. It’s more sugaryness than soothiness, but it hits home for those of us that were young teenagers in the late sixties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mAgL8G4-E
Stirrin
May the Lord have Mercy on her soul.
Fur, I just sent you an email about this. Do you remember the “Soothiness” threads? You posted one of mine, which was more sugaryness than soothiness, but it was a Mary Ann video set to the tune of Sugar Sugar. Just a bit of nostalgia for readers my age, who were in their pre-to-early teens during the Gilligan’s Island / Archie’s days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mAgL8G4-E
2020 just isn’t getting any better. RIP Mary Ann.
Yep, Mary Ann camp as well. Also Bailey Quarters camp.
She had that “down to earth” persona that appealed to me.
I saw her in a Nashville supermarket round about 1978. Hot.
She was hot.
The lady that played Mrs. Howell was the wealthiest member of the Gilligan cast. In her later years, Dawn cared for her as she declined. Says a lot about one of America’s Sweethearts.
Always Mary Ann. RIP Dawn Wells.
One of my favorites. RIP dear lady.
So is this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqupS8x0i1c
I guess I’m the only one in the Mrs. Howell the Third camp. Can I get me a hunting’ license around here?
RIP, Mary Ann.
The answer to the question was always Mary Ann.
RIP Dawn
Yeah, this year is such a bummer. RIP, Mary Ann.
From the coof? What you’re saying is we’ll never know if it was from falling down the stairs, influenza, motorcycle accident, sunk boat, or abandoned on an island, etc.
RIP.
Wells was my favorite from the island of misfit plots. She was incredibly wholesome and incredibly sexy at the same time. She even aged well.
About 12 or 13 years ago Wells was arrested for pot possession. SHe got a fine, that was about it. Oddly enough, Bob “Gilligan” Denver was arrested in WV for receiving a package of pot through the mail. He, too, got off fairly easy.
Speculation back them was that the source of the package sent to Bob Denver was Dawn Wells. Can’t prove it, but it makes for great urban legends.
I’d of happily traded ten trillion democrap lives, for hers!
I was pretty much a kid back then. She made me feel all funny down there. First boner.
That’s a compliment.
Some guys got the same for Gilligan from what I understand. Poor bastards.
But seriously, she seemed very sweet and down to earth
“GINGER OR MARY ANN??”
“BOTH??”
RIP CLASSY LADY
@DavisW
Bailey Quarters was truly beautiful (Jan Smithers). I’m more Mary Anne than Ginger.
And ultimately Lynda Carter over Farah Fawcett, and anyone else for that matter.
It pisses me off that Fawcett died on the same day that the Pedo Michael jackson died.
Dawn wells seemed like a nice person.
Godspeed
Mary Ann forever!
I was in high school when she was “HOT”.
I’m now 66 and she is still Hot.
When is melissa milano dying?
RIP. She starred in a movie I still have nightmares about…”The Town That Dreaded Sundown”.
‘Gilligan’s Island’ was one of the stupidest shows on tv at a time when there was a lot of stupid shows (‘It’s About Time’, ‘My Mother The Car’…)
… but Mary Ann sure made it a lot better on the eyes!
RIP Dawn
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – “…Gilligan’s Island’ was one of the stupidest shows on tv at a time when there was a lot of stupid shows…”
Well yeaahhh, but put it in perspective. At the time of GI, we lived in an age of innocence. Plus, it was never intended to be intellectually stimulating.
If your comment reflects your opinion back then, well then you probably hated every tv show from that era. But if it is a current reflection, then you’re not accounting for the true intent of the show – which was mindless comedic entertainment.
May the souls of the faithful departed ,through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
^^^^^^^^^ that’s me with a hanging pinky.
@MOAON AABE
Gilligan’s was not a great show back then but compared to the Kardashians and today’s Shyte it looks like a Mensa meeting followed by a calculus lecture.
Sad times for humanity….
@stirrin ~ so, my opinion is hosed either way, huh? …. got it, thanks
equating ‘Gilligan’s Island’ to every show of that era is a silly ‘all-or-nothing’ argument. I was in jr. high at the time. I thought ‘Batman’ was a hoot. liked ‘Combat!’ better. & yes ‘Gilligan’ was mindless, but I wouldn’t call it ‘comedy’ just because it had a laugh-track. Hell, Manard G. Krebbs on ‘Dobie Gillis’ was more intellectual stimulation.
you know what they say my friend, opinions are like assholes …. everybody has one
… & they all stink 😉
@Flip
I’m pretty sure it was something that the professor may have cooked up for the aching pains as you get older. So no harm done.
I could never see what people saw in Ginger.
Maybe because they made her the movie star and even back then something didn’t seem right.
…my favorite Dawn Wells interview line…
“DAWN: Well, I tend to get a lot of the same reactions. Some 45-year-old guy will come up, and he’ll bring his 10-year-old daughter. And he wants her to listen to Mary Ann, I think. And they’re not gonna be embarrassed by what I would do. I’m not bra-less, wearing a low-cut gown. So I think they have this trust in what I would say… I mean, I’ve had proposals. Uh, well I did have a cute little thing happen with Nick Nolte. I was doing a show for Australia called “The Castaway Correspondent”. I was interviewing all the people in the movies and everything. And the only person who told me they liked Ginger better than Mary Ann was Robin Williams. (laughs) But Nick Nolte said, “Oh my gosh, you got me through puberty in the nicest of ways!””
…yep, in the nicest of ways indeed…
http://zacharymule.com/wp/?p=3550
…RIP Dawn. May your ship have washed up on Heaven’s shore this time…
Tina Louise is going to be very lonely at the next Gilligan’s Island reunion.
this one’s for you Stirrin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NX6yqCTRO4&ab_channel=TyMiller
The question was always “Ginger or Mary Anne?”, but reality is more like “Gilligan or The Skipper?”
Mary Ann was the fantasy love of my life. As played by Dawn Wells, her sexuality was part of the character’s personality and not the whole of it. Her down to earth, girl next door wholesomeness was much more attractive to me than Ginger’s movie star narcissism, and she was a far healthier symbol of womanhood than the glamour queens.
RIP, Dawn Wells.
And to think I just got my bride the entire Gilligan’s Island series for Christmas. The first season was in B&W. Yup, that long ago.
Aw. 🙁
I was about 11 or 12 (maybe 13) when “Gilligan’s Island” first turned up on the tube. I fell madly in love with Dawn Wells, her beauty, sweet farmgirl charm, and the best legs (to me, anyway) on TV! Followed her on FB and was stunned by the news yesterday. Her posts were fabulous, just as I would have expected her to be. RIP Dawn, I’ll remember you always!!
Lovely lady. Good Life. Sorry about her departure.
RIP Dawn
I know in retrospect, Mary Ann wins the the contest hands down, but at the time, it was Ginger who stoked the first fire in my pre-adolescent loins
So it was Ginger who drew first wood in me … which is why I always had a soft spot for Ginger
(I believe I just made a pun)
At times I’d watch classic comedies with my kids (when they were younger) and I can tell you, all those “groundbreaking” comedies like “All In The Family” did nothing for them. They could sense there was a mean spirit in those shows
But guess what caused them to both roll on the floor giggling — the good natured, sheer goofiness of Gilligan’s Isle. And this at a stage where they could catch the humor in shows like “The Simpsons” and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”