Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' Dies at 82
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hollywoodreporter.comDawn Wells, the girl-next-door actress and former beauty queen who played the sweet Mary Ann Summers on the iconic CBS sitcomGilligan's Island, died Wednesday morning.
She was 82. Wells diedin Los Angeles of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist announced. Other than Tina Louise, Wells was the last surviving memberof the regular cast of the Sherwood Schwartz-created show, which featured three women and four men marooned on a desert island after their three-hour boat tour off the coast of Honolulu went inexplicably awry.
Airing amid the real-life tumult of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and unrest on college campuses, viewers welcomed the corny sitcom as wholesome escapism.
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