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Gidget

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Gidget Goes to Rome

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Gidget (TV Series)

Original title

Gidget

Year

1959

Running time

95 min.

Country

United States

Director

Paul Wendkos

Screenwriter

Gabrielle Upton. Novel: Frederick Kohner

Cast

Music

Arthur Morton

Cinematography

Burnett Guffey

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Genre

Comedy | Teen/coming-of-age

Synopsis

Frances Lawrence is almost 17, petite, an A student, and an accomplished musician. She has studied about everything but sex. In fact she hates dates (she rejects her father's suggestion to meet a certain nice young man), and when her friends drag Frances to the beach to meet boys, she is happy when a clique of surfers is not interested in them. Her friends leave to try some other beach, but Frances stays to enjoy herself swimming. When Frances almost drowns, surfer 'Moondoggie' rescues her. Frances is immediately fascinated by surfing and persuades her father to give her the money for a surfboard. Thanks to full time surf bum Kahoona, who lives in a hut on the beach, Frances is admitted to the clique of surfers as their little mascot called 'Gidget' (Girl+midget). Moondoggie treats Gidget rather cool. She thinks that he is a grouch, but when he rescues her for a second time, she cannot help falling in love with him. However Moondoggie still does not pay her much attention. He dates with beautiful Joanne and ponders, whether he shall quit college and become a full time surf bum like Kahoona. Gidget tries to impress Moondoggie by becoming a great surfer in no time, but when he would not stop treating her like an infant, Gidget invents a plan to make him jealous. She pays surfer Hot Shot twenty bucks to take her to the luau (big surfers party to celebrate the end of summer), where he is to pretend to be crazy about her.

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Gidget

1959

Paul Wendkos

5.1

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