Judith Baldwin
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Judith Baldwin (b. March 26, 1946 in Washington, D.C.) is an American film and television actress best known for replacing Tina Louise in the role of Ginger Grant in Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978) and The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979). In 1981 she was suppose to play the role of Ginger Grant one more time in the TV movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island but was unavailable because she was working on another project. Baldwin amassed 46 screen credits between 1969 and her leading role in 2005's Every Secret Thing.
She was crowned Miss New Mexico 1965 and was the second runner up that year in The Miss USA pagent. Her first acting job in Hollywood was in 1969 on I Dream Of Jeannie in the episode "Jeannie and the Bachlor Party" playing Major Nelson's secretary "Dolores".
In 1987, she was the person who created the role of Beth Logan on the soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, but she was soon replaced by Nancy Burnett who became more closely identified in the role.
Miss Baldwin has guest starred on many TV shows including, Police Story, Fish, Quincy, The Dukes Of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, T.J. Hooker, Hill Street Blues, Fantasy Island, Archie's Bunker Place, Chips, Matt Houston, Emerald Point N.A.S., Brothers, Matlock, Freddy's Nightmares, Empty Nest, Tales From The Crypt, Cybill and Six Feet Under.
TV Movies and feature films include, The Seven Minutes (1971), The Stepford Wives (1975), Tales Of The Apple Dumpling Girl (1982), Hospital Massacre (1982), I Was A Male Order Bride (1982), Deal Of The Century (1983), No Small Affair (1984), Talking Walls (1987), The Stepford Children (1987), Made In The USA (1987), Beaches (1988), Pretty Woman (1990), Exit To Eden (1994), James Dean (2001), The Princess Diaries (2005) and Every Secret Thing (2005)
[edit] Trivia
Judith Baldwin who took over the role of Ginger Grant in Rescue From Gilligan's Island in 1978 appears with the original Ginger Tina Louise three years earlier in the cult film The Stepford Wives 1975. Besides being in a few scenes together, watch for the last scene in the movie where both Ginger's pass each other in the supermarket and just glance at one another. (No. Charmaine (Tina Louise's character) and Pat (Judith's character) don't pass nor glance at each other. In the supermarket scene, Pat passes and speaks to the Carol character ("Hello Carol", she says. "Hi Pat", Carol replies. That's all we see of Pat in the supermarket scene). Charmaine passes the arguing black couple, and later passes and speaks to Marie and Carol).
Judith Baldwin also appears in the 1987 TV movie The Stepford Children with Barbara Eden.
Both Ginger's have also worked with Larry Hagman. Judith Baldwin plays Major Nelson's secretary Dolores on an 1969 episode of I Dream Of Jeannie, while Tina Louise would go on to play J.R.'s secretary Julie Grey on the first few episodes of Dallas before being killed off.
