Gidget (film)
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Gidget is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, and the Four Preps. The film is about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her romance with a young surfer.
Gidget: Directed by Paul Wendkos. With Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell. A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
Gidget. Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget".
Gidget (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ dʒ ɪ t /) is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner (based on his teenage daughter, Kathy) in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach in Malibu .
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Among the best known is the ABC series Gidget, which ran from September 15, 1965 -September 1, 1966 and starred Sally Field as Gidget. According to a June 17, 2006 Los Angeles Times article about Kathy Kohner, she remained a life-long surfer, staying active in the sport even into her mid-sixties.
Sandra Dee stars as everyone's favorite teenager, Gidget. While hitting the beach during summer vacation she falls for two surfers (played by Cliff Robertson and James Darren) at the...
Gidget (1959) 1959 · 1 hr 36 min. TV-G. Comedy · Drama · Romance. Sandra Dee became a model for countless teenagers in the late 1950's when she played Gidget, a sad-faced youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach.
Jul 11, 2019 · There was a made-for-TV movie, “Gidget Grows Up,” in 1969, and sequels and reboots continued through the 1980s. But the original film remains, as Gidget might say, the absolute ultimate.
RELEASED IN 1959 and directed by Paul Wendkos, "Gidget” is a beach drama about a 16 year-old tomboyish girl (Sandra Dee) who gravitates toward a group of surfing males in Southern Cal, specifically Malibu.
