Natalie Schafer is best known as Lovey Howell on 'Gilligan's Island." ... Before Schafer signed on to play the beloved TV character, she had a certain contract demand.

Natalie Schafer is best known to TV fans as Lovey Howell on Gilligan’s Island. For three seasons, Schafer played the wife of millionaire Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus).

Natalie Schafer had been working for four decades before she was offered the role of Lovey Howell on Sherwood Schwartz's 1964 sitcom "Gilligan's Island." Schafer later admitted that she only took ...

As for Schafer, she was a veteran of Broadway and Hollywood, and well into her 60s when she landed the role of Eunice "Lovey" Howell on "Gilligan's Island." ...