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Gilligan s Island star star passed away in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19, according to Variety.
Dawn was best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers in the American sitcom, and for her one-woman show in Las Vegas.
Dawn Wells played Mary Ann in Gilligan s Island. (via Getty Images)
Gilligan s Island followed seven castaways as they battled to survive on a desert island after being shipwrecked.
The show ran for three seasons and spawned three television film sequels between 1978 and 1982.
Tributes have been pouring in online for the star, with many paying their respects to the American Actress.
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Gilligan s Island co-star Dawn Wells.
The 86-year-old actress, who played movie starlet Ginger Grant on the popular 1960s TV sitcom, revealed that she was shocked to hear that her longtime friend passed away at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles following complications from COVID-19. Wells, who played Kansas farm girl Mary Ann Summers on the classic comedy series, was 82 when she died. I m very sad, Louise told Dawn was a very wonderful person. I want people to remember her as someone who always had a smile on her face. Nothing is more important than family and she was family. She will always be remembered… She was a person full of joy, and shared her joy with everyone. Louise revealed that she got the bad news about Wells via a phone call from a friend in Hollywood.
Rescue from Gilligan’s Island (1978),
The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island (1979) and
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (1981).
Wells was crowned Miss Nevada in 1959 at age 20 and competed in the Miss America pageant the following year. In 1960, she graduated from the University of Washington with a drama degree. She went on to marry talent agent Larry Rosen in 1962, but they divorced five years later in 1967.
In 2018, Wells’ good friend Dugg Kirkpatrick launched a fundraiser to help the actress pay off medical bills. Wells had been struggling to make ends meet and she allegedly suffered “an unexpected accident that required hospitalization for two months” and needed the funds to “alleviate penalties by the IRS” and cover her hospital costs. The fundraiser raised $205,510.