The Untold Truth About 'Gilligan's Island'

The Schwartz Family

Sherwood Schwartz left quite the legacy among the public and his family due to his work with Gilligan's Island. His daughter, Hope Juber, said that she still has The Skipper's hat that Alan Hale Jr. gifted her father. She said, "Alan Hale Jr. presented him with the bronzed hat as a meaningful, sentimental gesture. I think that by bronzing the hat it was a way of not only keeping it protected and preserved but also immortalizing it."

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