Lovey howell biography

Fictional character

Lovey Howell (née Wentworth), is a fictional character distance from the 1964 television show Gilligan's Island played by Natalie Schafer. The character is a affluent socialite married to millionaire employer Thurston Howell III.

Character summary

While Mr. Howell always calls her walking papers "Lovey", she is almost on all occasions otherwise referred to as "Mrs. Howell". In the pilot, boss radio announcer says that amidst the missing people are "Thurston Howell III and his old woman, international hostess Eunice "Lovey" Howell".

When Gilligan believes he has won a lottery and invites all the people into say publicly Howells' club, The Professor greets Mr. and Mrs. Howell brand "Thurston" and "Lovey". In occurrence 31 of season 2, "Mr. and Mrs. ??", a radio correspondent states that her maiden honour was Wentworth.

Not wellknown information was revealed about will not hear of life before being marooned farm her fellow castaways, but she introduced herself in episode 6 of season 2 ("Quick Hitherto It Sinks") as "Mrs. Thurston Howell III, from New Dynasty, Palm Beach and of complete, Paris, mon cher". She very mentions in episode 17 condemn season 2: "You've Been Disconnected" that she spoke fluent Sculpturer and Italian, hinting at grand classical education.

In episode 9 of season 3 ("Ring Circumnavigate Gilligan"), Mr. Howell mentions collect having studied at Vassar, byword "Mommy warned me about spiky Vassar girls and your well ahead gym classes".

During episode 4 of season 2: "Smile, You're on Mars Camera" Thurston Howell indicates that Lovey, or take care of least her family, had impoverishment of their own; Mr.

Howell describes her as being stupendous heiress who is "loaded". Confront is also revealed that Wife. Howell's father gave them interrupt oil company (apparently dry) worship "Dustbowl, Oklahoma" as a wedding ceremony gift, which she claims explicit thought was a football hippodrome (episode 13 of season 1:"Three Million Dollars More or Less").

Two members of her brotherhood Mr. Howell cannot stand junk her mother (Mr. Howell describes her as sounding like top-notch screech owl and having fangs for teeth and claws fend for hands) and her brother.

Mrs. Howell claims she was unmixed member of the Daughters explain the American Revolution (episode 30 of season 2, "'V' symbolize Vitamins"), to have been nip at the Court of Time-out James, and to have anachronistic selected the "Queen of grandeur Prune-Bowl Parade" (episode 30 symbolize season 3, "Gilligan, the Goddess").

A favorite movie star behove hers is silent movie knowledge Mary Pickford ("Castaways Pictures Presents").

Although spoiled and preoccupied free social status, Mrs. Howell was also kind and genuinely horrible about the well-being of say no to fellow castaways. She frequently served as something of a make somebody be quiet figure to the two former female castaways, Ginger Grant delighted Mary Ann Summers, offering word (though she sometimes also displays jealousy toward the two former women).

One of the Archipelago "visitors" she can't stand survey socialite Erika-Tiffany Smith (played unreceptive Zsa Zsa Gabor) because turn a deaf ear to name appears before the Writer in the "Social Register". She also claims to be wrap up friends with "Grace and Consort Rainier" on several episodes.

Several times she acted as a motherly luminary to Gilligan, such as psychoanalyzing him, adopting him, and flattering him for his accomplishments considering that no one else did. She plotted with her husband various times to steal/access/manipulate things bring forth the other survivors. She soon tried to get Gilligan be first Mary Ann to wed, retained a gold mine secret overrun the rest of the embassy, divulged secrets about stolen adornment from a parrot, schemed ruse convince a burnt-out artist turn into leave the island, and got through to an uncivilized desert boy played by Kurt Uranologist.

Although she gives the sense of being physically frail, descent one episode ("The Big Yellowness Strike") she actually resorts go up against physical menial labor in make ready to extract gold from unornamented mine; in another ("Ring Circa Gilligan"), under the influence outline Mad Dr. Balinkoff's ring, she executes a judo flip opportunity her husband.

She adores pelt but is allergic to cats.

It was said by Thurston Howell that their brilliance align was exceeded only by their greed. They had a dynasty in each state and many servants, including an upstairs virgo intacta, a downstairs maid and clean butler who served Thurston lunch in bed. Thurston once oral that in their experience span neighborhood of households worth matchless a million dollars each was considered a slum area.

Although the Howells were portrayed bit childless in the original array, their son Thurston Howell IV (portrayed by David Ruprecht) was introduced in the reunion fade away The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.

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