“Gilligan’s Island” glamor gal Tina Louise claims Warner Brothers put out a doll based on her iconic TV character Ginger Grant without her knowledge – and she feels shipwrecked.
was released on Feb. 27 and is the spitting image of the flame-haired Hollywood bombshell, down to the beauty mark on her cheek.
The actress, who lives in Turtle Bay, only learned about the action figure from her daughter — and when dozens of the mini-me’s started arriving at her home from fans looking to have them autographed.Tina Louise, who starred as Ginger Grant on “Gilligan’s Island,” is currently wrapping up her latest project — the republishing of her 1997 memoir, “Sunday” in print and as an e-book.“I’m grateful for what I have. I have enough. But this is not right,” Louise told The Post.
The $12 vinyl “Ginger Grant” doll by Funko was released on Feb. 27 and is the spitting image of the flame-haired Hollywood bombshell, down to the beauty mark on her cheek.“And as someone who has never received a single residual check for ‘Gilligan’s Island’ in all these years of it continuously running, I would have hoped that Warner Brothers would have considered me when they were licensing the rights to my likeness on these dolls.
“Even though the doll has my red hair and my beauty mark in the same exact spot on her face, they believe the doll is made after the ‘character.’ It’s me!” said the woman named the “World’s Most Beautiful Redhead” by the National Art Council in 1958. “So I am, once again, not being paid for the use of my likeness and not even getting a licensing fee.”Louise is the last surviving castaway from the classic CBS show about seven shipwrecked strangers that debuted Sept. 26, 1964.
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