See Ginger, The Last "Gilligan's Island" Castaway, now 88 years old

Tina Louise played the emblematic role over 50 years ago.


"Sit down right away and you will hear a story / a story of a fateful trip / that started from this tropical port / aboard this little ship." THE Gilligan Island The intro is one of the most recognizable TV themed songs From all time, and the show is one of the most appreciated series. He was broadcast from 1964 to 1967, and every week, viewers could see how Gilligan and his group of comrades behaved on their remote island. Unfortunately, only one of the main actors in the series is still alive today. Tina Louise , who played ginger on Gilligan Island , is the only surviving star in the show, after the death of Dawn Wells , who played Mary Ann, in December 2020.

It's been over 50 years since Gilligan Island was on the waves, and many things changed for Louise at that time. She welcomed a girl and grandchildren, written books, continued to play and continued the heritage of the classic series. Read the rest to find out more about Louise's life today.

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Louise's acting career continued after the show.

Tina Louise in the
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Louise could be better known as Ginger, but it was far from her only part. She had a successful career in the theater and on the screen before being thrown Gilligan's Island, as well as after. Some of his projects according to the show include The demolition team ,, Stepford women , And Dallas . Her film and television career has slowed down in recent years, but she has appeared in a film as recently as 2019, Co-A With Stephen Baldwin In Tapestry .

She wrote a memory.

Tina Louise at the premiere of
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In 1997, Louise wrote a memory entitled Sunday: a memory , and she is interested in See him adapted in a film . "Well, you know that I had a very unusual childhood," she told Authority magazine in 2019. "I wrote a book on my first eight years called Sunday. I also have the beginnings of a script. I always wanted to make it a film. "She explained her education," I lived with a lot of cousins and different aunts and foreigners and so on. ""

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She also wrote children's books.

Tina Louise at the Museum of Modern Art and Luce Cinecitta's Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man Retrospective in 2018
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Louise has devoted herself to interest young children to read, and she volunteered to Read children's books in his house in New York for years, as indicated by the New York Post . She also wrote two of her own children's books. When I grow up was published in 2007, and What is a bee doing? was released in 2009. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In the 2019 interview with Authority Magazine, Louise shared that she was interested in writing a book for her grandchildren. "We have two new babies in our family, Clementine And Kingston , "she shares." They are one and a half. Maybe I will write another children's book for them. I have not yet understood what it will be. ""

She has a daughter and two grandchildren.

Caprice Crane and Tina Louise at opening night of
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Speaking of her family, Louise welcomed her only child, Caprice crane , with his ex-husband, his advertiser and his talk-show host The skulls . Caprice is a novelist and screenwriter, who worked on the restarts of 90210 And Melrose Place and co-written the film Love marriage .

In an interview of October 2021 with the New York Post ,, Louise said she was always open to go out together . "I am open. I am open. I am open to life," she said, but added, "these days, I still don't go out very far. If I go out with a friend, C 'is once two weeks. " She also said that she thought age was only a number. "Don't scan me. Who needs it?" She explained. "The figures are not what you look like or how you live your life."

She says, despite the contrary rumors, that she is proud to be part of Gilligan Island history.

Tina Louise in 2022
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Louise did not participate in Gilligan Island reunion films that have occurred over the years, but in an interview of December 2020 with the New York Post , she said that Rumors, she wants are not true.

"She considered that this had hampered her career as a dramatic actress", " Gilligan Island Creator Sherwood Schwartz Said in an interview with Academy television.

"Never true - I liked to do my part," Louis told the Job From the hypothesis that she wanted the series, "especially after having really started writing for my character, originally presented as a type of character of" Marilyn Monroe ". A different director took over and Really started to write for my character. "

Schwartz also reminded the television academy that Louise had told her once on a woman who was approaching her in a restaurant and shared a story on her dying husband, who was only comforted looking at Gilligan Island episodes of his hospital bed. "I think it gave him a little overview of the impact that the simple performers can have," said the writer.

"We have brought a lot of joy to people and always," said Louis in her Job interview. "This show is an escape from so many things that happen. Fathers share it with their children now. I receive letters all the time on this subject."


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