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But onscreen — especially in the close-ups Chu enjoys — there’s no spell on Earth, over or under the rainbow, that could convince me Erivo is a pigtailed wallflower.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Dawn Wells, an actor best known as the pigtailed Kansas farm girl turned castaway on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday at an assisted-living facility in Woodland Hills, California She was 82.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2020

Dawn Wells, an actress best known as the pigtailed Kansas farm girl turned castaway on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Dec. 30 at an assisted-living facility in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 82.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2020

You will find the soft girl online, pigtailed, clad in pastels, perhaps with a spray of faux freckles – or little clouds, or hearts – painted across her blush-pinkened cheeks and highlighted nose.

From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2019

As a pigtailed child, Joella had once ditched school to compete in, and win, a horse race against legendary Arapahoe riders.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand