Who the fuck was she anyway but a bad MM impersonation? She wasn't even a send up of that type. Even disability would allow her more dignity and she would probably look better and act less disturbed. Tina had lots of decades to choose another path. This scary fandom is perpetuated by the people who both worship and make fun of her. I suspect her fans here are just as delusional about their past and present prospects as she. Why does DL have a problem with unsuccessful ex TV performers? Why can't they just go into business or waitressing or sex therapy or real estate? Tina Louise looks scary. So you'll get another thread out of her when she dies. Find service information, send flowers, and leave memories and thoughts in the Guestbook for your loved one. But here is a woman who should have gone back to school and got a regular job 40 years ago. She was "ok" in the role but it wasn't something any other jobbing actress couldn't pull off. Saw TL on an episode of Cannon last week she played a cop who worked undercover in vice that got roughed up. Sherwood Schwartz on Tina Louises refusal to participate in subsequent Gilligans Island shows and the impact of the series on the public. Marilyn Monroe could turn hers off and on to point she could walk down a NYC street and no one knew who she was. Sherwood Schwartz on casting Tina Louise as Ginger on Gilligans Island. There is also a certain quality about above named actresses that TL just didn't have IMHO. If anyone thought she could carry a starring role on Broadway or in film offers would have arrived. Tina Louise had a respectable enough career on television because that is where she found work. Like Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Anita Morris, Suzy Parker and some others the equipment they were meted out was in addition to their other talents. One has basically nothing but her looks with perhaps some talent, while the other has both in spades. New York City, 11 February 1934) is immediately recognizable as Ginger Grant, the movie star stranded with six other characters on Gilligan’s Island on the CBS sit-com that ran originally from 1964 to 1967, but was syndicated for decades of popular television reruns. There are two types of stacked broads who become actresses. Actress, singer, and author Tina Louise ( b. Truly Tina was one of the few people you encounter in life that was all goodness and light.What was this so called great career Tina Louise supposedly had?Īt least Anita Morris didn't have to stoop to Playboy spreads to jump start her career. I am so sorry and cannot even imagine the sadness and loss you all must feel. I don’t know-makes me think now I wasn’t alone in the car after all. I thought of how much I enjoy her space shot pix and her Instagram posts with family and girlfriends and hoped this winter I’d be able to visit Tina and John when I was in Florida.Īll of these memories spooled by in a few moments driving by an old warehouse. The only reason I eat squash now is because Tina made me-if she cooked it, you were going to try it. I laughed at going to see Top Gun together and how I thought we were going to get thrown out of the theater for laughing and smiled thinking of their wedding and how the McGanns and Yoders made me feel like family. I smiled thinking of their amazing friendship and love for each other and how that was my my benchmark-then and now. Dawn Wells, the real-life Mary Ann Summers of Gilligan’s Island, was just as sunny and down-to-earth off-screen as she was on-screen, her co-star Tina Louise, the show’s only. I thought of how I called John, Uncle John and how much fun I had with them and how they encouraged me to be more social and to embrace going to college. I was in the car alone and just started laughing at all the shenanigans we’d get into, in and out of work, Tina’s crazy good laugh and how she would get me laughing at the dumbest things. I am in that area once every 7 or 8 years. A few hours before hearing of Tina’s passing I drove by the place we worked together 35 years ago.
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