Tina Louise

 Louise made her film debut in the year 1958, with God's Little Acre. The same year she was named "World's Most Beautiful Redhead" by the National Art Council. She starred with Robert Ryan in Day of the Outlaw in the year following. 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 also took part on Broadway as well as in Italian cinema. Her credits in Italian films include Garibaldi and The Siege of Syracuse (both 1960). Louise returned to America and began studying in the studio of Lee Strasberg. She then became a member of the Actors Studio. [7][8] In 1962, she guest-starred in the comedy The Real McCoys, portraying a country girl from West Virginia in the episode "Grandpa Pygmalion". Two years later, she appeared alongside Bob Denver in For Those Who think Young (1964). In 1964, she resigned from Broadway's musical Fade Out-Fade In to take on the role of Ginger Grant in Gilligan's Island. In time, she was dissatisfied with her role and was worried that it would typecast her. Although she continued to work in films and made appearances on TV however, she repeatedly claimed that her role as Ginger had ruined her movie career. She didn't appear in any of the subsequent Gilligan's Island sequel movies: Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978), The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979), or The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981). Others actresses appeared, instead, in subsequent sequels. After the show ended the actress continued her acting career and continued to act in The Wrecking Crew (1969) in which she starred alongside Dean Martin, and The Stepford Wives (1975).