"S. S. Minnow The S. S. ""Minnow"" is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"". The ship ran aground on the shore of ""an uncharted desert isle"" (in the south Pacific Ocean), setting the stage for this popular situation comedy. The crew of two were the skipper Jonas Grumby and his first mate Gilligan, and the five passengers were millionaire Thurston Howell III, his wife Lovey Howell, movie star Ginger Grant, professor Roy Hinkley, and farm girl Mary Ann Summers. The shipwreck was first seen in the season 1 episode ""Two on a Raft"", which"
"a certain age as an insight into their characters, or at least their desires as regarding certain female stereotypes. With the January 2014 death of Gilligan's Island co-star Russell Johnson, Louise and actress Dawn Wells are the only two surviving cast members of the original sitcom. Louise declined to participate in any of three reunion television films for ""Gilligan's Island"". Despite maintaining an active career after the show's run, she maintained that the show actually ruined her career. The role of Ginger was recast with Judith Baldwin and Constance Forslund. Although she did not appear in these television movies, she"
"Tina Louise Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American actress best known for playing movie star Ginger Grant in the CBS television situation comedy ""Gilligan's Island"". She began her career on stage during the mid-1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in 1958 drama film ""God's Little Acre"" for which she received Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Louise had starring roles in a number of Hollywood movies, including ""The Trap"", ""The Hangman"", ""Day of the Outlaw"", and ""For Those Who Think Young"". Louise later returned to film, appearing in ""The Wrecking Crew"", ""The Happy Ending"","
"Judith Baldwin Judith Lee Baldwin (born March 26, 1946) is an American film and television actress who replaced Tina Louise in the role of Ginger Grant in ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"" (1978) and ""The Castaways on Gilligan's Island"" (1979). A life member of the Actors Studio, Baldwin amassed 46 screen credits between 1969 and her leading role in 2005's ""Every Secret Thing"". Baldwin was born in Washington, D.C. She was crowned Miss New Mexico USA 1965 and was the second runner up to Sue Ann Downey in the Miss USA pageant that year. Her first acting job in Hollywood was"
"episodes did include changes in apparel for her as well. In the 1978 made-for-TV-movie, ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island""; Tina Louise refused to return, for she believed the role had typecast her forever as a glamor queen, and was replaced by Judith Baldwin. Baldwin also portrayed Ginger in the sequel ""The Castaways on Gilligan's Island"". However, Baldwin didn't return for the third sequel, ""The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island""; therefore, Constance Forslund, stepped in as the fourth actress to play the ""movie star"". Jayne Mansfield, a late-1950s sex symbol, was offered the role of Ginger after the departure of Kit Smythe,"
"who played Ginger as a secretary in the pilot. When Ginger was converted to a movie star, the producers swapped the actresses, and asked Mansfield, who was Marilyn Monroe-esque, to portray the character. However, she turned it down and was replaced by Tina Louise. Louise, however, disliked the character and for years felt it had ruined her career as a ""serious"" actress. Judith Baldwin played her in the first and second reunion film. Constance Forslund played her in the third and final reunion film to date. Kristen Dalton played Ginger in ""Surviving Gilligan's Island"". Tina Louise didn't reprise her role"
"wholesome, down-to-earth Mary Ann has consistently outpolled the glamorous bombshell movie-star Ginger by a sizable margin. Bob Denver admitted he was a Mary Ann fan. According to Bob Denver in a 2001 interview, Wells received 3,000–5,000 fan letters weekly, whereas Louise may have gotten 1,500 or 2,000. Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz. The show had an ensemble cast that featured Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Russell Johnson, Tina Louise, and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April"
"her with delight. Ginger does not know about the Skipper's memory loss and she answers, with appropriate Hollywood pique, ""Ginger, big boy, what's yours?"" Ginger sides with Thurston Howell, III on many occasions - acting as a witness during a trial over treasure, serving as a sort of spy to divulge information from Gilligan by scratching his back and allowing herself to be bribed by Howell, such as during the ""election"" of who was to be President of the island. It should also be noted that her secret agent code name and her measurements were both 36-25-36. She is also"
"the show's lagoon was not dismantled, and it remained in place until 1995, when it was converted into a parking lot. The series employed an ensemble cast of seven main actors and actresses. Denver played the role of the titular First Mate Gilligan, a bumbling, naive, and accident-prone crewman who often messes up the castaways chances of rescue. Alan Hale, Jr. portrayed The Skipper, captain of the S.S. ""Minnow"" and the older friend of Gilligan. Jim Backus appeared as Thurston Howell III, a millionaire, and Natalie Schafer played his wife, Eunice Lovelle Wentworth Howell. Tina Louise played the role Ginger"
"a prohibitively large sum of money. Judith Baldwin, a substantially younger actress who resembled Louise, was cast in her place. The following year, Baldwin would go on to play Ginger again in ""The Castaways on Gilligan's Island"". Cassandra Peterson also auditioned for the part of 'Ginger,' shortly before KHJ-TV offered her the horror-host position as 'Elvira Mistress of the Dark'. ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"" aired in two parts on NBC on October 14 and 21, 1978. The made-for-TV-movie was released on DVD on January 1, 2002, August 1, 2012, June 23, 2015, and July 9, 2015. Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
"Gilligan (Gilligan's Island) Gilligan is a fictional character played by Bob Denver on the 1960s TV show ""Gilligan's Island"" and its many sequels. Gilligan, affectionately called ""Little Buddy"" by the ""Skipper"", is the bumbling, dimwitted, accident-prone first mate of the . None of the show's episodes ever specified Gilligan's full name or clearly indicate whether ""Gilligan"" is the character's first name or his last. Gilligan wears a trademark red shirt, pale trousers, white sneakers and white navy cap. During a storm, he throws an anchor overboard without a rope attached, which leaves the ""Minnow"" shipwrecked on an ""uncharted desert isle"""
"make ""Gilligan's Island"" a hit television series. It portrays the network's initial rejection of the series as well as the filming of the pilot episode. This film also reveals the changes which each cast member went through after the pilot episode received negative feedback. Denver (who played Gilligan), Wells (who played Mary Ann), and Johnson (who played The Professor) share stories about the show and its status in pop culture. Footage from the original series is unveiled in addition to the recreations. This film also addresses the question of whether Ginger or Mary Ann is more attractive. An informal poll"
"Constance Forslund Constance Forslund (born June 19, 1950) is an American actress whose performances include a revival of Clare Boothe Luce's ""The Women"" on Broadway and the films ""The Way We Were"" and ""The Great Bank Hoax"". In television movies, Forslund portrayed Ginger Grant in ""The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island"" and Marilyn Monroe in ""This Year's Blonde"", one of a series of three movie specials under the ""Moviola"" name. She also appeared on such television series as ""Fantasy Island"", ""Taxi"", ""One Day at a Time"", ""Trapper John, M.D."", ""CHiPs"", ""Magnum, P.I."", ""The Love Boat"", ""[[Murder, She Wrote” “It’s a"
"the tour boat ""still wearing the evening gown from her last performance"". ""When I first broke into show business, I used to work with a magician"", Ginger confesses in Season 1 Episode 33 ""It's Magic"". In ""Gilligan's Island""'s pilot, actress Kit Smythe, was hired to portray Ginger, who was then a secretary. Ginger was sometimes seen helping the Professor with his experiments, dressed in a lab coat and spectacle frames, and they conspired together in the episode 'Ship Ahoax' to make it appear as though she were fortune-telling. They also shared romantic scenes, although these were usually in the form"
"and heavily involved in the theater, Ginger went on to become a Broadway star at the age of 19, and shortly after, a Hollywood film actress. She is perhaps best known for the nine films she made with Fred Astaire, but she was a huge star before they began working together and making dance films. Ginger visited her hometown several times during her lifetime. In 1942, she visited the home during an interview with LIFE magazine. In 1964, President Harry Truman declared July 16 to be ""Ginger Roger's Day,"" Ginger again visited the home in 1972 when she was in"
"the other five castaways as ""silent partners"". Ginger was again played by Judith Baldwin. In a second sequel, ""The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island"" (1981), villains played by Martin Landau and then-wife Barbara Bain try to take over the island to gain access to a vein of ""supremium"", a valuable but volatile element. This time, Ginger was played by Constance Forslund. They are thwarted by the timely intervention of the Harlem Globetrotters. Jim Backus, who was in poor health at the time, was written out of the script by saying Thurston Howell III was tending to Howell Industries back on"
"The Castaways on Gilligan's Island The Castaways on Gilligan's Island is a 1979 made-for-television comedy film that continues the adventures of the shipwrecked castaways from the 1964–67 sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"" and the first reunion movie, ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"", featuring the original cast from the television series with the exception of Tina Louise, who was replaced in the role of Ginger Grant by Judith Baldwin. Written by Al Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz and series creator Sherwood Schwartz and directed by Earl Bellamy, it was first broadcast on NBC May 3, 1979. Unlike the independently-produced ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"", this and the"
"The Ginger House The Ginger House, the birthplace and childhood home of the American actress, dancer, and singer, Ginger Rogers, is a tourist attraction and museum located in Independence, Missouri, United States, at 100 W Moore Street. This small craftsman style bungalow was built between 1906 and 1910 by Oscar Mindrup, a local real estate investor and city councilman. This site is the birthplace of Hollywood film actress/dancer Ginger Rogers. Virginia Katherine McMath (Ginger) was born on July 16, 1911 to Lela Owens McMath, who was estranged from her husband. Lela McMath rented the home and she and Ginger lived"
"Ginger and Fred Ginger and Fred () is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza. The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed in ""Rogers v. Grimaldi"" that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a ""false"
"Cheri Caffaro Cheri Caffaro is an American actress who appeared mainly in low-budget exploitation films in the 1970s. In the early 1970s, she was directed by then-husband and Manhattan theatre owner Don Schain in a series of soft-core ""sexploitation"" action films, most notably the ""Ginger"" series, consisting of ""Ginger"", ""The Abductors"" and ""Girls Are For Loving"". Caffaro played Ginger McAllister, a tough and resourceful bed-hopping private-eye and spy. Her missions involved busting up seedy wrongdoers involved in drugs, prostitution and white slavery. Her character also spends an inordinate amount of time bound and gagged and/or raped. She also appeared in"
"later, prior to the development of ""Gilligan's Island"", she appeared with Bob Denver in the beach party film ""For Those Who Think Young"". In 1964, she left the Broadway musical ""Fade Out – Fade In"" to portray movie star Ginger Grant on the situation comedy ""Gilligan's Island"", after the part was turned down by Jayne Mansfield. Over time she became unhappy with the role and worried that it would typecast her. The role did make Louise a pop icon of the era, and in 2005 an episode of ""TV Land Top Ten"" ranked her as second only to Heather Locklear"
"Ginger's name and restores her reputation. The events in the lives of Ginger King and another character are presented as incidents in a (non-fiction) newsreel at the end of the movie. The Flapper The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland, the film was the first in the United States to portray the ""flapper"" lifestyle, which would become a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s. Sixteen-year-old Genevieve 'Ginger' King (Thomas) is living in a very wealthy family in the boring town of Orange Springs, Florida, where even having a soda with"
"close friends with Mary Ann; the two are around the same age. Ginger Grant, due to many prior film roles in Hollywood, spent her time on the island occasionally taking on the roles of chanteuse, barefoot fortune-teller, lab assistant, hair stylist, and psychoanalyst – as well as fronting the hastily formed island musical trio: The Honeybees. She also had to deal with a doppelganger, a plain mousy girl named Eva Grubb (also played by Tina Louise). Unlike the other female castaways, who were seen in more than one set of clothes, Ginger initially appeared only in her evening gown. Later"
"and often includes her in her social plans. She is intrigued by her ""gingerisms"", as Courtney calls them. However, Miranda Killgallen (Cree Summer), Courtney's right-hand woman, makes sure that she is not bumped down from her position thanks to Ginger. At home, Ginger records her lively adventures in her diary. Her little brother, Carl (Jeannie Elias), is often scheming with Robert-Joseph ""Hoodsey"" Bishop (Tress MacNeille) in his own side plots, and her mother, Lois (Laraine Newman), is always there for advice to which Ginger is always open to listen. The series takes place in the fictional suburban town of Sheltered"
"a deal granting all rights to the movie, he reportedly said, ""[It] just happened in the last 48 hours. I can’t take this much excitement at my age."" Schwartz also said he would love to see Michael Cera as Gilligan and Beyoncé Knowles as Ginger. On December 17, 2013, ""Deadline Hollywood"" reported that Josh Gad would star and co-write the film with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez. The question of which of these two characters men prefer has endured long after the end of the series. The question has inspired commercials, essays, videos, and a sermon. By most accounts, the"
"Mary Ann Summers Mary Ann Summers is a fictional character in the television sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"" which ran on the CBS network from 1964 to 1967, and has run more or less continuously since in reruns. She was played by actress Dawn Elberta Wells. Mary Ann was portrayed by actress Dawn Wells. She was an ingénue, the typical girl next door, and a foil as well as a friend to glamorous Hollywood star Ginger Grant, played by Tina Louise. In addition, her practical domestic skills and plain, good, common sense make her an indispensable member of the group. She is"
"Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her starring role in ""Kitty Foyle"" (1940), but is best remembered for performing in RKO's musical films (partnered with Fred Astaire) on stage, radio and television, throughout much of the 20th century. Born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as a"
"the Crypt"", ""Cybill"" and ""Six Feet Under"". Television movies and feature films include: ""The Seven Minutes"", ""The Stepford Wives"", ""Tales of the Apple Dumpling Girl"", ""Hospital Massacre"", ""I Was a Mail Order Bride"", ""Deal of the Century"", ""No Small Affair"", ""Talking Walls"", ""The Stepford Children"", ""Made in U.S.A."", ""Beaches"", ""Pretty Woman"", ""Exit to Eden"", ""James Dean"", ""The Princess Diaries"" and ""Every Secret Thing"". Baldwin, who took over the role of Ginger Grant in ""Rescue from Gilligan's Island"" in 1978, appeared with the original Ginger (Tina Louise) three years earlier in the 1975 film ""The Stepford Wives"". Besides being in a"
"in Denver's home. He pleaded no contest and received six months probation. Denver died September 2, 2005 from pneumonia, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He had been receiving cancer treatment and had undergone heart bypass surgery earlier that year. Most of Denver's acting career was in television, and he appeared in several films and on Broadway. He was widely associated with the title character he played in the 1960s sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"", and continued to appear as Gilligan in several movies, as a guest on other television series, in personal appearances, and as a"
"remains. Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her starring role in ""Kitty Foyle"" (1940), but is best remembered for performing in RKO's musical films (partnered with Fred Astaire) on stage, radio and television, throughout much of the 20th century. Born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as"
"September 15, 2000. Her cause-of-death remains unknown. Jennifer Gan Jennifer Gan (March 2, 1938 – September 15, 2000) was a stage, film and television actress. She appeared in sixteen film and TV titles in the sixties and early seventies. A life member of The Actors Studio, she first began her career as Ginny Gan on the stage in musicals such as ""Li'l Abner"" in 1958, ""The Pink Jungle"" in 1959 starring Ginger Rogers and Agnes Moorehead, and ""No Strings"" in 1962. She made her first TV appearance in a popular ""Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" episode in late 1964. She then appeared"
"as ""Gilligan"" was announced. So, just as neither, Agent 99, Lt. Columbo nor Dr. R. Quincy is ever officially given a first name on air, neither is Gilligan. At the end of ""A Very Brady Sequel"", a movie based on ""The Brady Bunch"" characters also created by Sherwood Schwartz, Carol Brady reveals that her first husband was a professor lost on a boat. Dr. Whitehead, played by John Hillerman, says, ""and my son Gilligan was first mate on that boat."" Gilligan (Gilligan's Island) Gilligan is a fictional character played by Bob Denver on the 1960s TV show ""Gilligan's Island"" and"
"specified. He sometimes mentioned his childhood friends Skinny Mulligan, Fatso Flanagan, and Billy Maguire, possibly implying that he came from a predominantly Irish-American neighborhood and that his last name was Gilligan. Among his possessions are comic books, a boy scout book, a diary, a ""Manny Moose"" watch, and his high school ring. The character of Gilligan is noted for physical comedy, often with his friend the Skipper in the role of a straight man. Continuing gags of the show include Gilligan's seduction by Ginger, eating Mary Ann's coconut cream pies, joking about the Skipper's weight, and inadvertently undermining any attempts"