Ginger Grant is a fictional character in the 1964 to 1967 television

Television

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 sitcom Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island

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Grant is a movie star

Movie star

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, and would casually mention names of some of the biggest movie stars of the day, as co-stars or acquaintances, suggesting that she too was a great star. In the series' Season 1 Episode 1 "Two on a Raft", Ginger is also "singing in a club in Waikiki

Waikiki

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", possibly the same gig mentioned by the radio announcer where she was "still wearing the evening gown from her last performance".