TINA Louise, better known for playing Ginger Grant in the classic sitcom Gilligan's Island, is the last cast member still alive after the death of Dawn Wells.
Louise's co-star Wells, passed away on December 30, at the age of 82 due to Covid-19 complications.
Who is Tina Louise and what is her net worth?
Born on February 11, 1934, in New York City, Louise is of Jewish descent.
She was the only child of Sylvia Horn and Joseph Blacker.
Louise began studying acting, singing and dancing at the age of 17, and attended Miami University in Ohio after high school.
She made her big screen debut in 1959 in the film God's Little Acre, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
The following year, she starred in Day of the Outlaw with Robert Ryan.
As a singer, she recorded one album, It's Time for Tina, which released on Concert Hall in 1957, and later reissued on Urania Records.
Throughout her career, Louise has amassed a $6million net worth, according to celebritynetworth.
When did she play Ginger on Gilligan's Island?
In 1964, Louise starred as Ginger Grant on the CBS comedy series Gilligan's Island.
The series followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive on an island on which they had been shipwrecked.
In the show, Grant was portrayed as a Hollywood movie star.
Gilligan's Island ran for 98 episodes, all 36 episodes of the first season were filmed in black and white.
The shows second and third seasons, which airs between 1978 and 1982, were filmed in color.
Gilligan's Island grew in popularity during the 1970s and '80.
Today, the character of Gilligan, played by Bob Denver, is widely recognized as an American cultural icon.
What else did Tina Louise star in?
Louise appeared in several films throughout the 1960s and well into the late '80's.
Some of the films she appeared in are:
- Day of the Outlaw
- Garibaldi
- The Real McCoy
- Armored Command
- The Seventh Floor
- The Wrecking Crew
- How to Commit Marriage
- The Happy Ending
- Mean Dog Blues
- Dog Day
- Evils of the Night
What did Tina Louise say after Dawn Wells' death?
Louise has not spoken publicly about her former co-star Wells' death.
Wells died on December 30, due to complications from Covid-19.
Louise is now the last surviving cast member of Gilligan's Island.
Who was her husband Les Crane?
In 1966, Louise married radio announcer and television interviewer Les Crane.
Crane started off as an radio host in 1958, with KONO in San Antonio, Texas.
In August 1964, he got his own show on ABC titled The Les Crane Show, which would be the first network program to compete with The tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
A year later, Crane's show was renamed ABC's Nightlife.
Carson and Louise had a daughter together, Caprice Crane, born in 1970.
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Crane and Louise acted in a joint appearance on a 1969 segment of Love, American Style.
They divorced two years later in 1971.
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