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I WANT TO BE TINA LOUISE - Quiero ser Tina Louise

And the Pfeiffers were a middle-of-the-road 'normal' family. Michelle Pfeiffer says she used to watch re-runs of old movies on television and remembers casually thinking: I can do that. Her mother doesn't drive, and there was no cinema near the Pfeiffer home so television was the constant source of early entertainment. Two films of that childhood time remain favourites: The Wizard of Oz and The Bad Seed. Both films were directed by Mervyn Le Roy, and both involved young girls embroiled in strange happenings. The Yellow Brick Road fantasy of Oz was, however, a dramatic stretch from The Bad Seed. That film, -which was based on Maxwell Anderson's hit stage play of the same title, starred Patty McCormack as a sweet-looking eight-year-old. But the angelic-looking girl was in fact a liar and murderess. The thought of such a child being responsible for murder was shocking and controversial in the mid-1950s. In the film, her mother, played by Nancy Kelly, discovers the girl's secrets and tries to kill her daughter and then commit suicide.

A strange, dark choice for a girl from Midway City, who appeared so fresh and All American. It's with some relief that you hear that in these days Michelle Pfeiffer and her sisters would also gather around the television to watch Gilligan's Island, of which they became instant fans when it was first broadcast on 27 September 1964 . The show - still one of the most popular in re-runs nearly thirty years later - involved the small charter boat Minnow being caught in a storm and wrecked on the shore of an uncharted South Pacific Island. Marooned together on the island were the good-natured boat's captain, his sidekick Gilligan, a blustery millionaire and his vacuous wife, a sweet country girl named Mary Ann, a high-school teacher known as the Professor and a sexy film star named Ginger.

Tina Louise played Ginger Grant. The actress is a tall, busty redhead, and the producers made the most of her assets, squeezing her into tight little outfits so that her figure helped the viewing figures enormously. Michelle Pfeiffer remembers, 'We used to play Gilligan Is Island, and we used to fight over who would be Ginger. My life's ambition was to be Tina Louise.' But being a sensational screen siren seemed a long, long way from Midway City, Orange County, California, one of America's most-constantly Republican citadels.