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a three hour tour...(it might take that long to read this post...lol)
my post in the R.I.P. thread gave me an idea...i had to look it up to see if the professor is dead (he's not)...i ran across some useless info, that i thought i'd share...lol
The names Roy Hinckley, Eunice Wentworth, Jonas, and Willy would not ring a bell for anyone but the most savvy television viewers from the 1960s.
Gilligan, played by Bob Denver, never had his first name mentioned on the show, but series creator Sherwood Schwartz revealed that it was Willy.
Alan Hale Jr. was a fixture in Westerns during the Forties and Fifties and he made guest appearances on many television shows. He took the role of Jonas Grumby, the skipper of the doomed Minnow
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| July 13, 2011, 05:51 |
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Jim Backus was the millionaire Thurston Howell III, marooned with the rest. Backus worked for five decades in radio, movies, and TV, playing parts like James Dean's father in "Rebel Without a Cause" and voicing the cartoon character of Mr. Magoo. His "Gilligan's Island" character was a Harvard graduate, which led to Backus uttering the line, "He must be a Yale man" several times over the course of the series.
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| July 13, 2011, 05:53 |
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Natalie Schafer was a film and Broadway actress who was always secretive about her age. It wasn't until after she died in 1991 from cancer that it was revealed she had been born in 1900, making her 90, or about a dozen years older than she was thought to be. As Mrs. Eunice "Lovey" Howell, she played a good-hearted ditzy wife to Mr. Howell.
Russell Johnson appeared in a couple of "Twilight Zone" episodes before being cast as Professor Roy Hinkley, who could make one thing after another out of the materials on the island to help the castaways.
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| July 13, 2011, 05:56 |
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Tina Louise, the beautiful red-headed actress garnered the part of Ginger Grant, a Hollywood movie star that winds up on "Gilligan's Island", with the name a combination of the monikers of Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant.
Dawn Wells played the innocent girl from the Midwest, Mary Ann Sommers, who was the opposite of Ginger Grant, a wholesome country girl but still very pretty. Her outfits however made her very appealing to male viewers, as she had been named Miss Nevada in 1959 prior to her beginning an acting career.
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| July 13, 2011, 05:58 |
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newbie1011
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The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: a three hour tour...(it might take that long to read this post...lol)
I love that and there is one thing that is funnier to me than you even know . I have to pass this on to a family member now.
I did want to ask about one of your facts however. Natalie Schafer always hid her age. I had read that she told a friend to "say" she was 90 when she died. But I am not sure that was her real age.She made some kind of joke about it so I would love to know if it was actually verified or they just went with it.I believe they said her last words were "I'm going to take a pain killer now." I think she also left 3 million dollars to her poodle.You have to admit she was funny.
I remember watching something about the show before Bob Denver died and they said Tina Louise HATED that she was even associated with the show.She was supposed to be a real bitch to work with.
Personally I always loved the Professor.I guess I always had a thing for smart guys.
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| July 13, 2011, 06:24 |
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kamarel
60 / male
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
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Re: a three hour tour...(it might take that long to read this post...lol)
Because smart guys are creative.
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| July 13, 2011, 11:33 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: a three hour tour...(it might take that long to read this post...lol)
that's because he was the first genius, only the professor would think of spider cider to knock out a big over grown spider ....oh i also read about mary ann getting picked up with maryjane too
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| July 13, 2011, 18:35 |
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