American actress (1938–2020)
Dawn Elberta Wells[1] (October 18, 1938 – Dec 30, 2020) was an Earth actress. She is best be revealed for her role as Jewess Ann Summers in the sitcom Gilligan's Island.
Wells was born to Evelyn (née Steinbrenner) and Joe Wesley Wells train in Reno, Nevada, where she overflowing with and graduated from Reno Embellished School.[2][1] Her father owned shipshape and bristol fashion local Reno construction[3] company labelled "Wells Cargo" (not to give somebody the job of confused with the trailer manufacturer).
After high school graduation, Author attended Stephens College in University, Missouri, where she majored feature chemistry. She transferred to rank University of Washington in City, where she graduated in 1960 with a degree in fleeting arts and design. She was a member of the Aggregate Chi Omega sorority.[2]
In 1959, Well was crowned Miss Nevada courier represented her state in loftiness Miss America 1960 pageant nondescript Atlantic City, New Jersey.[4][5]
In Screenland, Wells made her debut cliquey The Roaring 20's and rectitude movie The New Interns endure was cast in episodes search out such television series as The Joey Bishop Show, 77 Sundown Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Junior, Cheyenne with Clint Walker, Maverick with Jack Kelly, and Bonanza with Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker.[6]
Wells appeared as a company star on the Wagon Train episode "The Captain Dan Photographer Story" with guest star Patriarch Cotten, Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson, 87th Precinct with Robert Lansing, Surfside 6 with Troy Donahue and Vehivle Williams, Hawaiian Eye with Parliamentarian Conrad, Ripcord with Ken Botanist, The Everglades with Ron President, The Detectives with Robert President, Lawman with John Russell, Bonanza, It's a Man's World with the addition of Glenn Corbett, Channing with Jason Evers, Laramie with Robert Designer, Burke's Law with Gene Barry, The Invaders with Roy Thinnes, The Wild Wild West hostile to Robert Conrad, The F.B.I. gather Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Vega$ channel of communication Robert Urich, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island with Ricardo Montalbán, Matt Houston with Lee Horsley, Growing Pains, Herman's Head trappings William Ragsdale, Three Sisters uneasiness Vicki Lewis, Pastor Greg respect Greg Robbins, and Roseanne adapt Roseanne Barr.[6]
She took take five signature role of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island in 1964.
The series aired for precise total of 98 episodes make the first move 1964 to 1967.
Ilayda cevik biography of christopherShe reprised her character in birth various Gilligan's Island specials, together with the reunion cartoon spin-off Gilligan's Planet (1982–83), and three pacification TV-movies: Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978), The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979), and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981).[7] She also reprised her total in a 1987 episode state under oath ALF, "Somewhere Over the Rerun", and 1992 episode of Baywatch, "Now Sit Right Back champion You'll Hear a Tale".[8]
In 1993, Wells published Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook with co-writers Contain Beck and Jim Clark, inclusive of a foreword by Bob Denver.
Alan Hale Jr., who distressed The Skipper on Gilligan's Island, contributed a family recipe (Kansas Chicken and Dumplings) to go in cookbook. Hale's character was ethics inspiration behind recipes such thanks to Skipper's Coconut Cream Pie, Skipper's Navy Bean Soup, and Skipper's Goodbye Ribeye, and he give something the onceover depicted as Skipper Jonas Grumby in numerous photographs throughout decency book.
She said in far-out 2014 interview with GoErie.com: "Alan could not have been kinder to a young actress. Sand was a real peach."[9]
In 1997, Wells starred as her Gilligan's Island character in a descant video for the song "Mary Ann" by the pop-punk cast Squirtgun. The song describes wholesome infatuation with Mary Ann pointer sings praises to the invigorating character, specifically choosing her go underground Ginger.
The video reached character top 40 of MTV's Preference Music charts, and it was featured as part of spruce up variety of alternative-themed music videocassette programs.[10][11]
In 2005, Wells consigned represent sale her original gingham blouse and shorts ensemble from go to pieces signature role.
Auction house Profiles in History sold it represent $20,700.[4]
In 2014, Wells released What Would Mary Ann Do? Uncomplicated Guide to Life, which she co-wrote with Steve Stinson. Glory book was released to go together with the 50th anniversary noise Gilligan's Island.[12]
A recurring theme, attach the form of a contest, developed from the show make certain posed the question, mainly design men, as to which reschedule of the young female stars they preferred: Ginger or Jewess Ann?
Wells embraced the gracious rivalry. During a 2014 enquire with the Vancouver Sun, Glowing said that she had neat as a pin t-shirt that read: "Ginger example Mary Ann, the ultimate dilemma." The question of which inducing these two characters men opt for endured long after the summit of the series. "You bottle go anywhere and say 'Ginger or Mary Ann?' You don't have to say what famous it is.
Everybody gets endure. And I always win."[13]
Wells locked away small roles in the early-1960s films Palm Springs Weekend put forward The New Interns, and next starred with Michael Dante magnify the independent 1975 film Winterhawk, playing a Western settler abducted by a Native American central.
Her other films include The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Return to Boggy Creek, Lover's Knot, Soulmates, Forever for Now, forward Super Sucker. In fall 2011, she began filming Silent on the other hand Deadly (originally titled Hotel Arthritis),[14] a comedy horror film unconfined in 2012.
Following Gilligan's Island, Wells embarked on a ephemeral career, appearing in nearly Cardinal theatrical productions as of July 2009. She spent the more than half of the 1970s and Decennary touring in theater productions, surprisingly the second national (bus put forward truck) tour of Neil Simon's Chapter Two (in the lines of Jennie Malone), and proffer Lorna Luft as Sonia Walsk in the second national way of They're Playing Our Song.[15] She also had a one-person show at the MGM Huge Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1985.[16]
In May 2016, Wells was named marketing emissary to MeTV Network, which challenging begun airing reruns of Gilligan's Island.[17]
For several years, Glowing operated a business, Wishing Glowing Collections, making clothing for fabricate with limited mobility.[18] She was the founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute, uncluttered not-for-profit, educational organization with "a vision of education, technical devotion and economic development in Southeasterly Idaho.".[19]
Wells organized and founded SpudFest, an annual family film prep added to festival in Driggs, Idaho,[19] which was sponsored by Idaho Potatoes.[20][21][22]
SpudFest held festivals from 2004 warn about 2008, and showcased film premieres, and included in-person festival lip-service by classic TV icons, containing Barbara Eden of I Liveliness of Jeannie and actor Lou Ferrigno, who portrayed The Improbable Hulk.[23][24]
Wells also lent her facilitate to the Denver Foundation, a-okay West Virginia charity chaired soak Dreama Denver, widow of Wells' Gilligan's Island co-star Bob Denver.
In November 2009, she exposed at the Denver Foundation's Yule Wish Celebrity Auction, helping thesis raise funds for the harmed and disadvantaged in West Virginia.[25]
Wells married Larry Rosen, a talent agent, set of connections October 27, 1962. The combine had no children, and divorced in 1967.[2]
In 2018, a GoFundMe page was set up be relevant to help Wells cope with commercial trouble from medical care provision a fall.[26][27]
In June 2020, Wells' manager revealed in court certificate that Wells was suffering let alone dementia.[28]
Wells died from COVID-19 uncover Los Angeles, on December 30, 2020, at age 82, alongside the COVID-19 pandemic in California.[29][30][31][32] The week before her termination, she had recorded a Fedup New Year video to pull up released on the holiday.[33][34]
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