Dawn Wells Sexy

Dawn Wells Sexy
Published on December 30, 2020 08:00 PM

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When Gilligan's Island premiered in 1964, the network was worried about two things.

"There were network censors back on those days, and they were really strict," Dawn Wells told PEOPLE in 2018. "They had to make sure that Ginger wasn’t showing too much cleavage and that I wasn’t showing too much belly button."

Some of the problem was the producer's decision to have Wells — 26 at the time — tie her gingham shirt into a knot to expose her midriff. "Even back then, sex sells," laughed Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers on the CBS family comedy.

"So they decided to have me tie up my shirt," said Wells. "But then my belly button was an issue, so my shorts were pulled up to cover my navel."

The actress, who died on Tuesday at age 82 of causes related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), told PEOPLE that the censors would come to filmings to ensure that the wardrobes were decent.

"I was a young girl on my first big network acting gig," she said with a laugh, "and there were these men — the censors were all men at the time — and they were looking at my torso!"

But despite the men looking at her body, Wells told PEOPLE that she took it all in stride.

"I guess I felt a little objectified, but not really," she said. "[Producer] Sherwood [Schwartz] would never have let me be taken advantage of like that. He was like a father. Such a good man. Such a family man. Everyone’s talking about '#MeToo' now, and I can say that I never had to deal with that on the set of Gilligan . People were so kind, so respectful. It was ahead of its time."

Wells told PEOPLE that despite the "silliness" of the show, she loved her experience — and thought that the critics misunderstood the sitcom.

"I understood the script," she explained. "It was silly. It was juvenile. It was slapstick. But I saw the deeper message right away, and I was in my 20s at the time. I understood that these were seven distinct people coming together from seven different worlds, and they were able to build huts and find food and take care of all the chores. They became a society and a family. They just couldn’t find a way off that silly island!"

After the show was cancelled, Wells said she was allowed to take some souvenirs from the set.

"I kept some of my wardrobe," she admitted, "but I haven’t been able to fit into it for years. You know who can fit into her clothes from back then? Barbara Eden. She can still wear her I Dream of Jeannie outfit. Not me! Those shorts are too tight now!"

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Gilligan’s Island , and star Dawn Wells is celebrating another kind of milestone: being the first person on television to wear short shorts.
Wells, 75, who played the sexy but wholesome Mary Ann Summers in the CBS sitcom, said she wore skimpy shorts on the show to make herself look more elongated next to her much taller cast members.
“Ginger was very tall and everyone else was over six feet tall,’ she said in a recent interview on Yahoo’s The Yo Show . “So how do you make yourself look more long-legged?...The wardrobe girl and I slanted it…and I kind of dipped the sides and brought the sides of the shorts up so my legs would look longer.”
Still, the shorts had to cover her navel, as per network regulations.
“I have them and I have the little top that went with them,” she said, adding that although many collectors would love to own the first short shorts ever worn on TV (“The Smithsonian’s very interested in them”), she says she won’t be selling them anytime soon.
They’re a special memento from a once-in-a-lifetime role that still holds a special place in her heart.
“It’s really something that there’s been a show that’s been on the air, this is 50 years. Fifty years of laughter and love where the cast that loves each other…It means a lot, it does.”
She also mused on why she got the most fan mail out of the entire Gilligan’s Island cast.
“I got the most fan mail because I think little boys don’t sit down and write to Gilligan. Little girls [would] write, I love you Mary Ann and I wish I were with you. I think Mary Ann is your best friend , whether boy or a girl. I think Ginger was kind of unattainable. It might have been the short shorts. The first time ever on television! I had to cover my navel; that did it right there.”
Apart from the short shorts, though, she said Mary Ann’s character appealed to many fans.
“Mary Ann was the moral compass,” she said. “She kind of kept everybody in line.”
The original Gilligan’s Island, which aired from 1964 to 1967, inspired a slew of spinoffs and movies over the following decades, including The New Adventures of Gilligan in the 1970s and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island in 1981.
Now, a new movie may breathe new life into the franchise. Warner Bros is planning a feature film based on the series, Deadline reports, which will feature Book of Mormon ’s Josh Gad.

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