News Dawn Wells, just months before COVID-19 death, planned to keep acting: ‘One play a year’ December 31, 2020 Steve Dorfman, Palm Beach Post Comments Off on Dawn Wells, just months before COVID-19 death, planned to keep acting: ‘One play a year’ Dawn Wells, Mary Ann of "Gilligan's Island," died of COVID-19. But before the pandemic, she said in her last interview she wanted to keep acting.