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Boise State News February 18, 2021
Film is an Idaho tradition: Filmmaker Nell Shipman (back row, wearing cape) and her company on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho in 1923. Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
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Meego (1997). Gilliganâs -themed episodes had a certain camp value.
Even her career as an author related directly to the series.
Mary Annâs Gilliganâs Island Cookbook, which included Skipperâs Coconut Pie, was published in 1993.
What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life, a memoir she wrote with Steve Stinson, appeared in 2014.
Mary Annâs advice in the book included this thought: âFailure builds character. What matters is what you do after you fail.â The San Francisco Book Review called the book âa worthwhile mix of classic values and sincerity .
Asked decades later about her favourite
Gilliganâs Island episodes, Ms Wells mentioned âAnd Then There Were None , which included a dream sequence in which she got to do a Cockney accent. She also cited âUp at Bat , an episode in which Gilligan (Bob Denver) imagined that he had turned into Dracula.
Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom âGilliganâs Island,â died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist said. She was 82.
What newcomers to the greater-Tetons region might not realize is that this favorite castaway, actress, businesswoman, journalist and teacher had strong ties to the Jackson Hole area. Her first acting gig, in fact, was at the Pink Garter Theatre in the early 1960s when the stage was located at the site of the current Jackson Hole Playhouse.
Wells discussed that first acting experience and others in an interview with the Jackson Hole News in 1999 when she opened the Film Actor s Boot Camp, which was located 35-miles from the heart of Jackson on her ranch in Driggs. The bootcamp gave Wells the opportunity to share her love of the Tetons, as well as her knowledge gained from dozens of theatrical performances, more than 120 TV shows, and experience teaching at Purdu
Dawn Wells, best known for playing eternal good girl Mary Ann Summers on
Wells died Wednesday as a result of complications from COVID-19. Her publicist announced the news on his Facebook page.
The actress starred as the sunny Kansas farm girl Mary Ann on the CBS sitcom for its full 98-episode run from 1964-67. Her death leaves Tina Louise (Ginger, the movie star) as the only surviving cast member of the popular series.
Though best known for her role on the series, Wells also appeared on television in shows like
77 Sunset Strip, Bonanza, Maverick,
Hawaiian Eye,
The Love Boat, and