Actors Who Almost Died On Set
Actors Who Almost Died On Set
By Zachary Sosland/May 10, 2021 7:13 am EDT/Updated: May 10, 2021 9:57 am EDT
Most people think that acting in movies and TV shows is easy: Actors arrive on set, say what s on the page, and go home. In many cases, however, actors participate in dangerous yet thrilling action set pieces or stunts that are shot on location. While they re fun to watch on screen, filming these complex scenes is anything but. It usually involves many moving pieces that need to be kept in check to promote safety and to ensure the scene looks convincing in the end.
Things You Get Wrong About Gilligan s Island
By Jan MacKell Collins/Jan. 19, 2021 1:39 am EDT Just sit right back and you ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. Oh come on. You knew you were going to hum the theme song from
Gilligan s Island the minute you started reading this. Whether or not we want to admit it, we ve been fans of this show forever even those who weren t yet alive when it premiered in 1964, or was unexpectedly canceled in 1967. But
Gilligan s Island remains an iconic piece of modern Americana even in reruns, which have aired continuously in the 50-something years since the show ended after just three seasons. And did you know a fourth season was actually planned for production? Thought not.
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.
“Every character on Gilligan’s Island was given a broad ‘stock’ comedy role to fill captain, mate, wealthy man, wealthy wife, professor, movie star except me,” she wrote. “She was given a name and location Kansas farm girl. I had to fill in the blanks. So, from the get-go, the Mary Ann character was different. She wasn’t a Hollywood creation. She was molded by me, from me.”
Her former costar Johnson also gushed about her in the forward.
Dawn Wells in ‘Gilligan’s Island’. Mediapunch/Shutterstock
“We love Mary Ann because she is the future, the hope of our world,” he wrote. The youngest of the castaways, Mary Ann has her entire life in front of her. “Watching her unfailing good cheer, her optimism is never in question. We love her because we need her emotional support and her belief that all will turn out well … We love Mary Ann because of Dawn Wells.”
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