First of all, Mary Ann was never "and the rest." She was much more than that. That dismissive "Gilligan's Island" theme-song lyric popped into my head when I heard the sad news that Dawn Wells, who ...

She may have been relegated, along with Russell Johnson's the Professor, to part of "and the rest" on the season 1 theme song of Gilligan's Island, but Dawn Wells' Mary Ann Summers instantly became ...

Gilligan’s Island and classic television fans were shocked at the announcement today of the death of the island’s sweetest resident Dawn Wells. Wells, who played “girl next door” Mary Ann Summers, ...