Bette Davis Once Pranked Alan Hale Jr. On The Gilligan’s Island Set

Alan Hale, Jr., According to all the reports, I loved playing the skipper on “Gilligan’s Island”. He has always been an artist in his soul, having inherited his work line of his father. Alan Hale, Sr. was already well known in Hollywood from the 1920s and had made many famous friends. This will concern the title in a moment.

Critics have sadly raised the popular sitcom of Sherwood Schwartz, but “Gilligan’s Island” was widely celebrated by its many fans. The series was imminently non -serious, never cared for exploring the horrible events to survive on a UNCHARTED desert island, and to focus rather on wide characters and Slapstick wacky. The distribution of “Gilligan’s Island” applied that the popularity of the show was due to its stupidity. In an eventful world, “Gilligan’s Island” was an idiocy balm. Whatever the magic alchemy, the spectacle has become popular worldwide, and it has deeply rooted in American conscience. For a spell, the cast of “Gilligan’s Island” was the most famous in the world.

The winning actress of an Oscar, Bette Davis, did not know the show. It was a time when television was considered a “lesser” medium that the film, and the big cinema stars rarely dawn to appear in a television program, regardless of its popularity. It was only when a movie actor was desperate for money that they would be on television; Davis herself has once “leaning” Appear in an episode of “Gunsmoke”. And, just for fun, she once visited the set of “Gilligan’s Island”, just to visit Alan Hale, Jr. It seems that Davis knew Hale’s father of the 1934 film “Fog Over Frisco”, and wanted to make the son of her friend a surprise visit. The fun meeting was detailed by the transcription of North Adams, Easily transcribed by Metv.

The story tells that Davis asked to visit the set of “Gilligan’s Island” and was able to do it because it had an “interior”. Not only was Davis friends with Alan Hale, Sr., but she was also close to a man by the name of Tom Keegan, who worked as replacement for Hale in the 1930s. Keegan, as happened, was also the replacement for Alan Hale, Jr. on “Gilligan’s Island”. There is even a fun story in the article of transcription on the way in which Davis, in 1934, once mixed Keegan with Hale, Jr. who – a young man of 23 years at the time – visited his father on the set.

Keegan was able to sneak Davis on the set for a day of shooting. The story tells that she was waiting on the set when Hale entered. She announced loudly: “I am also shipwrecked, Mr. Hale!” Oh, the pleasure they had. Davis never appeared on “Gilligan’s Island”, but there is something very human in his conscience.

Hale was interviewed for the same article, and he noted that “the island of Gilligan” was so huge that there were frequent visitors on the set, generally in large numbers. Hale has even stuck:

“It is a fun show. No one takes it seriously. There is always a gag on something. They say that the sets of Bob Hope attract the largest gallery of studio visitors, but I doubt that now. I think our galleries are larger. We should have a sign outside the reading of Set,” Disneyland Annex “.” “”

Hale did of course what to refer to the size of the crowds, and nothing subtle in the Disney Corporation. He would continue to celebrate “Gilligan’s Island” until his death in 1990, carrying the skipper hat for live events, and was happy to shake hands with fans. He was buried at sea And even offered an official burial by the Coast Guard of the United StatesA body he served. He lived a long, joyful and happy life.