Tina Louise

 Louise made her film debut in the year 1958, with God's Little Acre. The same year she was named the "World's most beautiful Redhead" by the National Art Council. She was a part of Robert Ryan in Day of the Outlaw the following year. She played the lead role in the films of Richard Widmark and Robert Taylor of late, usually in dark roles. She was not able to play roles in Operation Petticoat and Li'l Abner's films, and instead took part on Broadway as and in Italian cinema. Her credits for Italian film include Garibaldi and The Siege of Syracuse (both 1960). Louise returned to America to study in the studio of Lee Strasberg. She then was a member of the Actors Studio. She was a guest in the 1962 comedy The Real McCoys as a West Virginia country girl in "Grandpa Pygmalion". The following year she starred alongside Bob Denver in For Those who think Young (1964). In 1964, she resigned from the Broadway musical Fade Out-Fade in to portray Ginger Grant in Gilligan's Island. She was unhappy with her character and was worried that she would be a victim of stereotypes. She continued to work in films and occasionally appeared on TV however she frequently declared that Ginger was the one who destroyed her film career. She was not in any of the subsequent Gilligan's Island sequel movies, for instance, Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978), The Castaways at Gilligan's Island (79) or The Harlem Globetrotters at Gilligan's Island (81). The sequels featured different actors played the part. Following the end of the series however, she continued to pursue an career in acting and continued to appear in The Wrecking Crew (1969) in which she starred alongside Dean Martin, and The Stepford Wives (1975).