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Summary

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". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.

Details

Release Date: April 9, 1959

Runtime: 95 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Rating: 6.0/10 (39 votes)


The Gidget Collection

  • Gidget

    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". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.

  • Gidget Goes to Rome

    Gidget Goes to Rome

    Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.

  • Gidget Goes Hawaiian

    Gidget Goes Hawaiian

    Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...

  • Gidget Grows Up

    Gidget Grows Up

    After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

  • Gidget Gets Married

    Gidget Gets Married

    Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.

  • Gidget's Summer Reunion

    Gidget's Summer Reunion

    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 friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget’s niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.


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Cast

  • Sandra Dee

    Sandra Dee

    Gidget

  • James Darren

    James Darren

    Moondoggie

  • Cliff Robertson

    Cliff Robertson

    The Big Kahuna

  • Arthur O'Connell

    Arthur O'Connell

    Russell Lawrence

  • Mary LaRoche

    Mary LaRoche

    Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence

  • Joby Baker

    Joby Baker

    Stinky

  • Tom Laughlin

    Tom Laughlin

    Lover Boy

  • Sue George

    Sue George

    Betty Louise aka B.L.

  • Robert Ellis

    Robert Ellis

    Hot Shot

  • Jo Morrow

    Jo Morrow

    Mary Lou

  • Yvonne Craig

    Yvonne Craig

    Nan

  • Doug McClure

    Doug McClure

    Waikiki

  • Dick Clark

    Dick Clark

    Himself - Trailer Host (uncredited)