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." ...