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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] .
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 is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by directed by Paul Wendkos and starring [3] [4] 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: Created by Frederick Kohner. With Sally Field, Don Porter, Lynette Winter, Pete Duel. Gidget is a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.
Mar 4, 2021 · The Real-Life Gidget Looks Back From 80: “I Lived It All”. Kathy Zuckerman inspired the iconic surfer girl, and more than 60 years later, she’s still making waves. By Donald Liebenson. March ...
Gidget is an American sitcom television series by Screen Gems about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence.
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.
The guys call her Gidget--short for "girl midget”--and she’s a girl coming of age in the summer of 1957. Based on the experiences of his own daughter, Frederick Kohner's trend-setting novel became an international sensation and turned its irrepressible heroine into an American pop culture icon whose voice still echoes every thrill, every ...
Jul 11, 2019 · “Gidget” lured more people into the ocean than “Jaws” would later scare them out of it. But six decades on, “Gidget” is more than a mere fun-in-the-sun romp.
Jun 1, 2001 · Gidget. Frederick Kohner. Penguin, Jun 1, 2001 - Fiction - 176 pages. A surfing, boy-crazy teenager comes of age in the summer of 1957 in this classic novel that inspired both movies and...
