Gidget (film)
1959
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Gidget is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film. [3] [4] The picture stars Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, and the Four Preps in a story about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her romance with a young surfer . The film—directed by Paul Wendkos —was the first of many screen ...
- $1.5 million (est. US /Canada rentals)
- Lewis J. Rachmil
- Arthur Morton
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.
- Paul Wendkos
- 50
- 2 min
Gidget ( / ˈɡɪdʒɪt /) 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. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of "girl" and "midget". [1]
- Frederick Kohner
- The New Gidget: "Make Waves, Not War" (1988)
- Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas (1957)
- Kathy Gori
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It spawned two film sequels (Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) and Gidget Goes Hawaiian, 1961), two television series (Gidget (1965-66) and The New Gidget, 1986), and several TV movies along the way. Sandra Dee did not reprise her role in any of the sequels, though co-star James Darren portrayed Moondoggie twice more in Gidget Goes to Rome and Gidget ...
- Paul Wendkos, Milton Feldman
- Sandra Dee
June 1, 1985. Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband’s old surfing ...
Synopsis. Frances Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is a socially awkward, 16-year-old girl about to turn 17 and is on her summer break between her junior and senior years of high school. She resists the pressure to go "man-hunting" with her girlfriends and laments the days when the girls had fun together without boys.
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