Gilligan&#… Editing Mary C. McCall 1 You are editing an old version of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this version will be lost. You are editing an old version of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this version will be lost. You are not logged in. The rich text editor does not work with JavaScript switched off. Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor <p data-rte-fromparser="true"><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFile%3AMccall.jpeg%7Cthumb%7C345px%7Cright%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Mccall.jpeg%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22Mccall%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22align%22%3A%22right%22%2C%22caption%22%3A%22%22%2C%22width%22%3A345%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-17730373125f60e282d77ec" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gilligan5935/images/d/da/Mccall.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20160101231708" width="200" height="270" class="image thumb alignRight" data-image-name="Mccall.jpeg" data-image-key="Mccall.jpeg" type="image" /> </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Born on April 4, 1904 in New York, New York, <b>Mary C. McCall</b> was an American writer best known for several screenplays. A graduate of Vassar College and Trinity College in Dublin, she got her start writing advertising copy and fiction after graduation, later going into the film industry at Warner Brothers to help with the screenplay of "Scarlet Dawn" in 1932, based on her novel, "Revolt." Her later work includes "Craig's Wife," the 1935 film version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with James Cagney as Puck, "The Fighting Sullivans" and "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College." She also wrote eight of the ten films in the "Maisie" series. In the 50s and 60s, she also wrote episodes of "The Millionaire," "Sea Hunt," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Gilligan's Island" among others. She also had short stories published in such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post from the 30s to the 50s. <br data-rte-washtml="1" /> <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} -->From 1942 to 1944, McCall was the first woman president of the Writers Guild of America, serving again in 1951 to 1952. Like <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Oliver%20Crawford%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Oliver%20Crawford%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BOliver%20Crawford%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-17730373125f60e282d77ec" href="/wiki/Oliver_Crawford" title="Oliver Crawford">Oliver Crawford</a> and <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22J.E.%20Selby%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22J.E.%20Selby%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BJ.E.%20Selby%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-17730373125f60e282d77ec" href="/wiki/J.E._Selby" title="J.E. Selby">J.E. Selby</a>, she had to defend herself in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee against reports that she was a communist sympathizer in 1954. <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} -->She was the first recipient of the Writers Guild's Valentine Davies Award in 1962. In 1985, she also received the Guild's Edmund J. North Award. <br data-rte-washtml="1" /> <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} -->McCall passed away from cancer at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1986. She was one day shy of her 82nd birthday. </p> <h2 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Episode(s)</h2> <ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1"><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Hi-Fi%20Gilligan%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Hi-Fi%20Gilligan%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BHi-Fi%20Gilligan%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-17730373125f60e282d77ec" href="/wiki/Hi-Fi_Gilligan" title="Hi-Fi Gilligan">Hi-Fi Gilligan</a> </li></ul> <p /> Loading editor Below are some commonly used wiki markup codes. Simply click on what you want to use and it will appear in the edit box above. Insert: – — … ° ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § Sign your username: ~~~~ Wiki markup: {{}} | [] [[]] [[Category:]] #REDIRECT [[]] <s></s> <sup></sup> <sub></sub> <code></code> <blockquote></blockquote> <ref></ref> {{Reflist}} <references/> <includeonly></includeonly> <noinclude></noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:}} <nowiki></nowiki> <!-- --> <span class="plainlinks"></span> Symbols: ~ | ¡ ¿ † ‡ ↔ ↑ ↓ • ¶ # ¹ ² ³ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ∞ ‘ “ ’ ” «» ¤ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ $ ₫ ₯ € ₠ ₣ ƒ ₴ ₭ ₤ ℳ ₥ ₦ № ₧ ₰ £ ៛ ₨ ₪ ৳ ₮ ₩ ¥ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ View this template This field is a spam trap. DO NOT fill it in! Edit summary Preview Mobile Desktop Show changes