Forget the Professor’s pedal-powered washing machine—no achievement on Gilligan’s Island was as impressive as Ginger and Mary Ann’s ability to look ravishing week after week. Why it is that Ginger ...

We here at Chron.com are always fond of sharing milestones with our readers that remind them just how old we are all getting. Consider this one of those instances. Dawn Wells, the actress who played ...

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers, the ponytailed innocent trapped for years on "Gilligan's Island," turns 74 Thursday. Stop a minute, build a radio out of coconuts and let that sink in: ...

Those first two "Gilligan's Island" questions can be explained (they're Howells, and fixing the Minnow would've ended the show). But the other query remains. As we noted when marking Dawn Wells' 74th ...