GILLIGAN'S Island star Tina Louise is getting candid about her time on the set of the iconic show. The 90-year-old actress is re-releasing her memoir and gave a fun update about it. Tina played Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island, alongside Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells , Bob Denver, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, and Alan Hale, Jr.
She is re-releasing her memoir, Sunday: A Memoir , 27 years after it first came out in 1997. The actress is also releasing it on audio for the first time. To commemorate the rerelease of her book, Tina shared a bit about her time on set on Facebook.
READ MORE ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND "I've been having fun doing press about my audiobook for the re-release of Sunday, my memoir written from my perspective as an 8-year-old. It's really quite freeing and therapeutic to talk about it. The book is out now in various forms," she wrote .
'DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT' Tina admitted to New York Living earlier this month that she didn't think Gilligan's Island was going to last. “I thought it was going to just last six months, but it seemed to go on forever," she said. "I had just become a member of the Actor’s Studio, and I didn’t really want to do it, but they weren’t happy with the person who did the pilot, so I was just asked to do it.
" Most read in Celebrity “I was in a Broadway show at the time with Carol Burnett, and I was asked to do this," Tina went on. “I was encouraged by a friend who told me it would only last six months and then I could go back to what I had been training for." Gilligan's Island was about a group of seven people who got shipwrecked on an island together.
It aired from 1964 to 1967 for three seasons. MORE ON TINA Tina is the last remaining member of Gilligan's Island still alive, after Dawn Wells' death in 2020. Dawn died at the age of 82 from complications of Covid-19.
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 Louise was born on February 11, 1934, in New York City . She is the only child of the late Sylvia Horn and Joseph Blacker.
Louise, who is of Jewish decent, began studying acting, singing, and dancing at 17 and attended Miami University in Ohio after high school. Read More on The US Sun Before Gilligan's Island, the actress made her debut in the 1959 film God's Little Acre. She was also a singer and released one album in 1957.
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