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The Love Boat’s Oscar-Winning Guest Stars: Icons Who Set a Course for Adventure on Hit Show
The ABC hit 'The Love Boat' set sail with plenty of Oscar-winning guest stars, including a young Tom Hanks and Kathy Bates, icon Olivia de Havilland and more.
The show ran for nine seasons between 1976 and 1986 and included a young Tom Hanks and Kathy Bates, as well as movie icons such as Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. In 1981, the two-time Oscar winner guest-starred as Captain Stubing’s (Gavin MacLeod) Aunt Hilly and set a course for adventure opposite fellow screen legend Joseph Cotten. After starring on The Donna Reed Show for eight seasons, the actress (who won her Oscar for 1953’s From Here to Eternity) didn’t take a role on TV for 18 years — until The Love Boat ’s 1984 Hong Kong cruise episode.
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