Gilligan's Island

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Early into the show, Bob Denver was asked to pose for some publicity photos for the cover of TV GUIDE with Tina Louise. Denver stood firm in his insistence that he wouldn't pose for any pictures unless both Tina and Dawn Wells were in the pictures.

The network relented, but Wells was cut out of the TV GUIDE when it hit the shelves. Here are some pictures from that photo shoot.

Here's the cropped photo used for the TV GUIDE cover:

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

Early into the show, Bob Denver was asked to pose for some publicity photos for the cover of TV GUIDE with Tina Louise. Denver stood firm in his insistence that he wouldn't pose for any pictures unless both Tina and Dawn Wells were in the pictures.

The network relented, but Wells was cut out of the TV GUIDE when it hit the shelves. Here are some pictures from that photo shoot.

This was included in the TV movie/documentary reconstruction, didn't realise it was so blatant.

The pictures are funny in the context of the show, because Ginger hardly lusted after Gilligan. Sure, she would use her appeal for her own means, but the pictures read like Gilligan is the real heartthrob of the show.

On a different note, I'm assuming the ring Ginger is wearing in the pictures and the show is Tina's real engagement ring?

 

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This was included in the TV movie/documentary reconstruction, didn't realise it was so blatant.

The SURVIVING GILLIGAN'S ISLAND movie? I used to have the DVD, but it's on YouTube now for free.

The pictures are funny in the context of the show, because Ginger hardly lusted after Gilligan. Sure, she would use her appeal for her own means, but the pictures read like Gilligan is the real heartthrob of the show.

Gilligan wasn't the heartthrob, but he was the star. Bob Denver felt it was unfair for Tina Louise to be thrust to the forefront of publicity while Dawn Wells lingered in the background. But I'm willing to bet Louise's agent got her a better deal, or, as legend would have you believe, the powers-that-be thought she was hot.

On a different note, I'm assuming the ring Ginger is wearing in the pictures and the show is Tina's real engagement ring?

She didn't marry Les Crane until 1966, but they could've been engaged already by the time these pictures were taken.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

The SURVIVING GILLIGAN'S ISLAND movie? I used to have the DVD, but it's on YouTube now for free.


Gilligan wasn't the heartthrob, but he was the star. Bob Denver felt it was unfair for Tina Louise to be thrust to the forefront of publicity while Dawn Wells lingered in the background. But I'm willing to bet Louise's agent got her a better deal, or, as legend would have you believe, the powers-that-be thought she was hot.


She didn't marry Les Crane until 1966, but they could've been engaged already by the time these pictures were taken.

That's the one. It's timestamped below. I'd take the way the movie depicts things with a grain of salt considering the he said she said history of the show.

 

[Seaviewer]

Where are you -- Ginger or Mary Ann?

Mary Ann. I've just never found "glamorous" to be attractive as such.

Early into the show, Bob Denver was asked to pose for some publicity photos for the cover of TV GUIDE with Tina Louise. Denver stood firm in his insistence that he wouldn't pose for any pictures unless both Tina and Dawn Wells were in the pictures.

The network relented, but Wells was cut out of the TV GUIDE when it hit the shelves.

Wells still looks like a third wheel in the uncropped versions. It's arguably better for her that they ran as two-shots.

 

[Crimson]

Ginger or Mary Anne?

We may have at least one vote for Mrs. Howell.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Jim Backus was also the voice of Mr. Magoo, I believe

 

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Early into the show, Bob Denver was asked to pose for some publicity photos for the cover of TV GUIDE with Tina Louise. Denver stood firm in his insistence that he wouldn't pose for any pictures unless both Tina and Dawn Wells were in the pictures.

The network relented, but Wells was cut out of the TV GUIDE when it hit the shelves. Here are some pictures from that photo shoot.

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Here's the cropped photo used for the TV GUIDE cover:

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I think that I read that that photo originally included both Tina Louise and Dawn Wells, but the editors chose to show just Bob Denver and Tina Louise

 

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We may have at least one vote for Mrs. Howell.

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Natalie Schafer was a beautiful woman, even into her 60s on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. She had an elegance that both Tina Louise and Dawn Wells lacked, quite honestly.

 

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I remember my dad telling me years ago, "Mary Ann looked better than Ginger, but Jeannie looked better than both."

 

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34 years ago in 1990, "The Skipper" Alan Hale Jr. passed away at 68.

 

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Tina Louise as "Julie Gray" on DALLAS:

 

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