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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Bunny.jpg|thumb|right|Nancy McCarthy as &#039;Bunny&#039; in the pilot episode of [[Gilligan&#039;s Island]]]]<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Nancy McCarthy&#039;&#039;&#039; (born June 8, 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress perhaps best known for her role as &quot;Bunny&quot; in the original 1963 pilot (unaired until 1992) for &#039;&#039;[[Gilligan&#039;s Island]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ==Career==<br /> After the &#039;&#039;Gilligan&#039;s Island&#039;&#039; pilot was made, series creator [[Sherwood Schwartz]], after many network problems, decided to make changes, including dropping McCarthy&#039;s character. She also appeared in two other unaired TV pilots: &#039;&#039;Zelda&#039;&#039; with Sheila James and on &#039;&#039;The Peter Lorre Playhouse&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> McCarthy made appearances on a total of eight episodes of other television series, including &#039;&#039;[[My Three Sons]]&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;[[The Donna Reed Show]]&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;[[Lock-Up (TV series)|Lock Up]]&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[Surfside 6]]&#039;&#039; .&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1386266 IMDB List of appearances]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> McCarthy originally made her New York stage debut as Dixie Evans in [[The Big Knife]] at the Seven Arts Playhouse in 1959, which starred Carroll O&#039;Connor and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.&lt;ref&gt;Playbill/The Big Knife/NYC/1959&lt;/ref&gt; She appeared in several live television plays produced in New York including &#039;&#039;True Story&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Divorce Court,&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Moment of Fear&#039;&#039; with Robert Redford on the &quot;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&quot; series. On stage in Los Angeles she played Maggie in &#039;&#039;After The Fall&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> Her regional credits include Flirt in &#039;&#039;Dark at the Top of the Stairs&#039;&#039; with Sylvia Sydney at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis Massachusetts and as Maisie in &#039;&#039;The Boy Friend&#039;&#039; at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.<br /> <br /> McCarthy retired from acting after suffering a back injury in 1972, but continued to work as a print and fashion model and, later, in the advertising and design field. Her final television credit is the pilot for &#039;&#039;Gilligan&#039;s Island&#039;&#039;, which finally aired on [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] on 16 October 1992, twenty-nine years after it was filmed.<br /> <br /> ==Personal life==<br /> Nancy Darlyne McCarthy grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University)with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama. She began her acting career by appearing in local theater and performing on a weekly radio play. While still a student in college, she auditioned for director [[Otto Preminger]] for the title role in his movie &#039;&#039;Saint Joan&#039;&#039;. <br /> <br /> McCarthy married twice, first to a fellow actor, and later to a businessman to whom she is still married. They live outside of California.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *{{IMDb name|1386266}}<br /> <br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, Nancy}}<br /> [[Category:1937 births]]<br /> [[Category:Living people]]<br /> [[Category:American actresses]]</div>

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