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Gidget
Gidget, first edition dustjacket
First appearance	Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas
Last appearance	The New Gidget
Cause/reason	End of the series
Created by	Frederick Kohner
Portrayed by	Sandra Dee Deborah Walley Cindy Carol Sally Field Karen Valentine Monie Ellis Kathy Gori (voice) Caryn Richman Sabrina Kramnich (stage)
Information
Nickname(s)	"Gidget"
Gender	Female
Age	"Fifteen-and-a-half years old" (late 1950s, 1960s or early 1970s)
Date of birth	circa 1941 (early novels), circa 1943 (motion pictures and later novels), circa 1950 (TV sitcom, first two telemovies), circa 1958 (third telemovie and The New Gidget),
Occupation	Student. Also waitress (Cher Papa), teacher (Gidget in Love and Gidget Gets Married), fashion model (Gidget Goes Parisienne), tour guide (Gidget Goes New York and Gidget Grows Up) and travel agent (Gidget's Summer Reunion and The New Gidget).
Family	Professor Russell Lawrence (father) Anne Cooper (sister) John Cooper (brother-in-law)
Spouse(s)	Jeff "Moondoggie" Griffin (by the 1980s)
Relatives	Danielle "Dani" Collins-Griffin (niece)
Address	803 N. Dutton Drive, Santa Monica, California

Gidget 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 at Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau word of "girl and midget".^[1] Following the novel's publication, the character appeared in several films, television series and telemovies.

Novels

The original Gidget was created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas (reprinted numerous times under the shortened title Gidget, by which it is more widely known), written in the first person and based on the accounts of his daughter Kathy (now Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman) of the surf culture of Malibu Point. Kohner, a prolific screenwriter with one Academy Award nomination, published seven sequels to this novel, five of them original novels: Cher Papa^[2] (1959), The Affairs of Gidget^[3] (1963), Gidget in Love^[4] (1965), Gidget Goes Parisienne^[5] (1966) and Gidget Goes New York^[6](1968), plus two novelizations: Gidget Goes Hawaiian^[7] (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome^[8] (1963), adapted by Kohner from films of the same titles, based on original stories by Ruth Brooks Flippin.

Frederick Kohner

Kohner, a Czechoslovakian Jew, worked in the German film industry as a screenwriter until 1933 when he emigrated to Hollywood after the Nazis started removing Jewish credits from films. Over the coming decades Kohner and his wife Franzie raised their two daughters by the beach while he toiled as a screenwriter for Columbia Pictures. As his children grew into American teenagers he noticed that his daughter Kathy in particular was drawn into a very specific, regional, contemporary slice of American teenage culture - the surf culture.

Surfing was a then minor youth movement that built its foundation around a sport, love of the beach, and jargon that must have proved a challenge to an Eastern European immigrant. The details fascinated Kohner, who was empathetic with his daughter's feminist intention to participate in a "boys-only" sport. A book was conceived and Kathy became her father's muse as he delved into the surfing world with his daughter as his guide. Over a six week period Kohner wove the stories she told into a novel, which he titled upon completion with her nickname, Gidget.

In the original novel, Gidget gives her name as follows:

"It's Franzie," I said. "From Franziska. It's a German name. After my grandmother."^[1]

She does not give us her last name. In subsequent novels, her name is Franzie Hofer. In the films in which she appears her name is changed to a more English sounding Frances Lawrence, and the names of some other characters are changed as well. In the 1960's television series (episode 16, Now There's a Face) Gidget gives her full name as Frances Elizabeth Lawrence.^[9]

Kohner also wrote other novels about the experiences of different teenaged girls, including The Continental Kick, Mister Will You Marry Me?, and The Gremmie, as well as non-fiction books such as the biographies Kiki of Montparnasse and The Magician of Sunset Boulevard.

Films

Sandra Dee as Gidget in the 1959 film, (VHS cover)

Kohner sold the movie rights to Columbia Pictures (through the William Morris Agency) for $50,000, then giving five percent of this to his daughter Kathy.^[10]

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the character Gidget (the prototypical beach bunny) was adapted for three films, all directed by Paul Wendkos and released by Columbia Pictures:

• Gidget (1959), starring Sandra Dee.
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), starring Deborah Walley.
• Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), starring Cindy Carol.

The first film also featured a young Yvonne Craig and Tom Laughlin, years before he became known as Billy Jack. Although the later two films were billed as sequels to the first, there was little attempt at continuity other than in the plot. Only James Darren, playing Gidget's boyfriend Moondoggie, has the same major role in all three films. For Gidget Goes Hawaiian, some scenes from the first film were re-shot with the new cast, to be used as flashbacks.

Television

In 1965, the character was adapted for television in the sitcom series Gidget, starring Sally Field.^[9] The series reintroduced Larue, a timid, awkward girl who often accompanied Gidget on her zany escapades, and an older married sister Anne Cooper ("Ann Cooper" in the novels), both of whom appear in the original 1957 novel but are absent from the motion pictures. Gidget's brother in law, who appeared in the novels as Larry Cooper, an intelligent but condescending child psychiatrist was reinvented in the TV series as John Cooper, an obtuse but lovable psychology student. In the TV series, Gidget regarded both her sister and brother-in-law as clueless squares. In one of the first episodes, the producers sent Gidget's boyfriend Moondoggie east to college with the convenient understanding that both were free to date others while separated, thus opening plots to a variety of complications and guest stars. The sitcom essentially focused on the father-daughter relationship with Gidget receiving moral instruction from her father at episode's end and growing a little wiser from it. The sitcom ran for only one season, but spawned a devoted cult following.

There is some thinking that the series was written as a sequel to the films. Arguments in favor of this theory include its use (for the most part) of character names from the films that were changed from those in the novels, the casting of Don Porter as Gidget's father in both Gidget Goes to Rome and the ABC sitcom Gidget, and the fact that it (the sitcom) occasionally refers to events in the original 1959 film. Arguments against this theory include Gidget's age (sixteen through nineteen in the films, but only "fifteen and a half" in the sitcom), the complete absence of Gidget's sister Anne (a principal character of the sitcom) from all three Hollywood films, and the portrayal of Gidget's acquaintance with the "Kahuna"—events leading to her close friendship with him in the 1959 film are repeated as though for the first time in episode three (The Great Kahuna) of the sitcom.

Sally Field as television's Gidget (1965)

Sally Field's brown hair completed the hat trick for Gidget's natural hair color. Sandra Dee and Cindy Carol were blondes, and Deborah Walley a redhead. In the novels, Gidget tells us in Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas and The Affairs of Gidget that she is a natural blonde; in Gidget Goes Parisienne she states that she has black hair, but never says that she is a natural brunette. Nowhere in the novels is she ever said to be a redhead.

In 1969, Karen Valentine starred as Gidget in the telemovie Gidget Grows Up, freely adapted from the 1968 novel Gidget Goes New York, but also functioning as a sequel to the 1965 sitcom series.^[11]

In 1972, another telemovie was made titled Gidget Gets Married, in which Gidget finally married longtime boyfriend Moondoggie. Monie Ellis played the title role.^[12] This incarnation of Gidget is unique in that it gives Moondoggie's real name as "Jeff Stevens." In the novels, the other telemovies and The New Gidget he is "Geoffrey H. Griffin" (the middle initial is mentioned only in the first novel); in the Hollywood films and the sitcom Gidget he is "Jeffrey Matthews." Later that year, Hanna-Barbera produced a 60 minute animated feature for television, Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection, with Kathy Gori as the voice of Gidget.^[13] It was broadcast as part of the Saturday morning series The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.

In 1985, a follow-up of the 1965 sitcom series was launched with the telemovie Gidget's Summer Reunion, starring Caryn Richman as a grown version of the character played by Sally Field.^[14] This was followed by a sitcom series The New Gidget, which ran for two seasons 1986-1988.^[15]

The Gidget/Bewitched connection

The 1959 Columbia Pictures' Gidget filmed on location at a real home in Santa Monica (at 267 18th Street) as seen in the film. The blueprint design of this home was later reversed and replicated as a house facade attached to an existing garage on the backlot of Columbia's Ranch. The reversed Gidget house was primarily used on the Columbia/Screen Gems hit television show Bewitched which premiered in 1964. The patio and living room sets seen in Columbia's Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) were soon adapted for the permanent Bewitched set for 1964. In the TV series from 1965–66, Gidget (played by Sally Field) is often shown with a "Samantha" doll in her bedroom (a merchandise cross promotion for the other Columbia TV show), and in 1986's The New Gidget (produced by Columbia executive and producer Harry Ackerman) the facade used in shots for her home is the reversed Gidget house (better known by TV audiences from those subsequent decades of reruns as Samantha's home on Bewitched). ^[16]

There are other examples of Screen Gems reusing resources from different productions. For instance, the exterior and kitchen sets of the 1965 television series starring Sally Field had been previously employed in the Screen Gems' sitcom Hazel starring Shirley Booth.

Gidget timeline

• 1941 Kathy Kohner born.
• 1956 Kathy Kohner learns to surf and is nicknamed "Gidget".
• 1957 Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas published.
• 1959 Motion picture Gidget released, Cher Papa published.
• 1961 Motion picture Gidget Goes Hawaiian released, novelization Gidget Goes Hawaiian published.
• 1963 The Affairs of Gidget published, motion picture Gidget Goes to Rome released, novelization Gidget Goes to Rome published.
• 1965 Gidget in Love published, TV sitcom Gidget first airs.
• 1966 Gidget Goes Parisienne published, TV sitcom Gidget canceled.
• 1968 Gidget Goes New York published.
• 1969 Telemovie Gidget Grows Up airs.
• 1972 Telemovie Gidget Gets Married airs, animated feature Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection airs.
• 1985 Telemovie Gidget's Summer Reunion airs.
• 1986 Frederick Kohner dies, TV sitcom The New Gidget airs.
• 1988 TV sitcom The New Gidget canceled.

In popular culture

Psycho Beach Party (DVD, 2000), a spoof by Charles Busch on Gidget and other beach movies

• The names "Gidget" and "Moondoggie" were also used for two characters of the anime series Eureka Seven, among many other nods to surf culture.

• In 1979, the Southern Californian punk rock group Suburban Lawns had a small cult hit with the parody single "Gidget Goes To Hell".

• Ex-Marilyn Manson bassist Brad Stewart took the first part of his stage name, Gidget Gein, from Gidget, and the second half from serial killer Ed Gein.

• In 1995 Fred Reiss published a novel titled Gidget Must Die: a Killer Surf Novel, about the darker side of surf culture.^[17] Except for her name in the title, the book has nothing to do with the character Gidget or her spinoffs.

• Gidget was spoofed in Charles Busch's off-Broadway play (1987) and film (2000), Psycho Beach Party. The play was originally titled Gidget Goes Psychotic, but changed due to copyright concerns. In the original 1987 production, Charles Busch played the role of a Gidget-like beach teen, "Chicklet". Deciding that he might not be believable on film in the role of a sixteen-year-old girl ("while I can still manage, with the aid of a sympathetic cameraman, to play a sophisticated 25, 16 would be a stretch"), he added and portrayed the character of Monica Stark to the film. Stark is a female police officer investigating a series of bizarre murders among the surfer crowd.

• The Brunettes have a song titled Too Big For Gidget.^[18]

• In 2001 Brian Gillogly began work on an independent documentary: Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story. It was first shown in Malibu in 2006.

• In 2007 Terry McCabe and Marissa McKown adapted a stage play Gidget from Kohner's 1957 novel. It was performed at City Lit Theater in Chicago in May and June 2007, directed by Marissa McKown and starred Sabrina Kramnich as Gidget.^[19]

Notes

External links

• The Real Gidget, essay by Deanne Stillman about Kathy Kohner Zuckerman
• In Malibu, Gidget's Up (interview with Zuckerman, Washington Post, September 16, 2005
• Successful Women (interview with Zuckerman), Jewish Woman, Summer 2003
• Review of the DVD containing the three Gidget films.
• Synopsis of many telemovies including Gidget Grows Up.
• Frederick Kohner at NNDB
• Online Review of the stage play Gidget
• Gidget (character) at IMDb

From Wikiquote

Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner (1905-86), based on his teenage daughter Kathy (now Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman) 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 at Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau word of "girl and midget".^[1] Following the novel's publication, the character appeared in several films, television series and telemovies.

The Novels

Frederick Kohner wrote eight "Gidget" novels, six of them original novels, two of them novelizations based on motion pictures with the same titles.

Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957)

• "I'm writing this down because I once heard that when you're getting older you're liable to forget things and I'd sure be the most miserable woman in this world if I ever forgot what happened this summer."^[1]

  • chapter one, first sentence (p.3 in current edition)

• "All things considered--maybe I was just a woman in love with a surfboard."^[1]

  • chapter fifteen, second last sentence (p.154 in current edition)

Cher Papa (1959)

• "He gave this a moment of thought.

  "Then he said, 'In love--I don't think I am. But I do like Franzie. I liked her from the day I saw her for the first time, out at Malibu on the board. She's got spunk and spirit. She's got warmth and enthusiasm. And--' he smiled diffidently, 'I like her particularly because I know that she likes me.'

  "I admit I was quite fascinated by this bit of self analysis.

  "'I am always ready to like a girl who likes me,' the Kahuna went on. 'You see, I am basically a shy person. It's always been hard for me to believe that a woman really liked me. So if it happens--well--I really want to hold onto it.' "^[2]

  • chapter five
  • N.B. Cher Papa is unique among the novels in that it is narrated by Gidget's father rather than Gidget (Franzie) herself; the above quote is excerpted from a conversation between Gidget's father and the Kahuna. It is included because it speaks to the nature of Gidget as a human being, and the nature of her close friendship with the Kahuna.

Gidget goes Hawaiian (1961 novelization)

• "My friend the great Kahoona once told me that the sea is where we came in, and the sea is where we go out. We have crawled out of the sea and one day we're going to crawl back into it. That solution of salt is in our blood."^[3]

  • chapter seven

The Affairs of Gidget (1963)

• "All the short years of my life I have been fascinated by the word 'affair.'

  "It sounds so decadent.

  And when I say short years, I say so advisedly. They have been painfully short, fifty-nine inches to be precise and that's stretching it."^[4]

  • chapter one, first few sentences

• "If you want to believe the Arabs, there are three things you can't hide: love, smoke and a man riding on the back of a camel.

  "I have news for the Arabs.

  "They have left out one other thing, and that thing is a toothache."^[4]

  • chapter twelve, first few sentences

Gidget Goes to Rome (1963 novelization)

• "Amore, I said to myself, if it is good--it is very good. And if it is bad--well--it isn't that bad."^[5]

  • chapter six, last sentence

Gidget in Love (1965)

• "The bluebird of happiness had come home to roost. If this isn't heaven, I thought, lingering in his sweet embrace, I ask you, what is?"^[6]

  • chapter fifteen, last two sentences

Gidget goes Parisienne (1966)

• "Everything was about to begin.

  "I felt ridiculously young.

  "I had groups and groups of time left.

  "Zut alors, so free and light as I, was no one in this world."^[7]

  • chapter twenty-two, last several sentences

Gidget Goes New York (1968)

• "Life, I think, is wonderful, but people are hell."^[8]

  • chapter one, first sentence

Films

Gidget (1959)

• "Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. Well, it positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had."^[9]

Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)

• "Something happens to parents when they have children; they forget that their kids are human beings...you show me one kid that'll go out of his way to become involved with his parents!"

• "But that's not the way it's supposed to go; I can't even be a good fallen women."

Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)

Television

Gidget (1965-66)

• episode 1. Dear Diary...Et.Al. teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "You see before you me, Gidget. For fifteen and a half years, my life was complete and total ick. But then on the twenty-third of June, two things happened: I fell in love...with two things: Jeff, my Moondoggie and surfing."^[10]

• • Funny thing about life: a few hours ago I hit the lowest point in my whole absolute existence, and now I'm riding so high I can't even see cloud nine when I look down. John would say that shows a lack of maturity, and I can't argue with him. When you're young it's not easy to level off and fly right. It's too bad you can't be born with maturity, and then lose it later on when you're old enough not to need it any more."^[10]

• episode 2. In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "I'll tell him tomorrow the main reason why he and Anne and John will be topic A with the gang: 'cause my friends are not exactly stupid. They know that Dad and Anne and John were all doing what they did to help or protect, whichever, and they were all doing it out of love. And if there's one thing my friends and I dig, even when it comes from relatives, it's love."^[10]

• episode 3. The Great Kahuna teleplay by Albert Mannheimer, Story by Frederick Kohner

• • "Oh, hi Anne, hi John, what's new in Kooksburg?...Oh sorry. What's the latest on the psychological front?"^[10]

• • "Holy Minestrone!"^[10] (upon seeing the Kahuna in a suit)

• episode 4. Daddy Come Home teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "Well, I mean, if you work around food, shouldn't you look like you eat it once in a while?"^[10] (Gidget feels the woman her father is dating is too slender.)

• • "I was so mad, so furious, I did a perfectly ridiculous thing for any normal, healthy teenager to do at a quarter of nine in the evening: I went to bed...and then I did something even crazier: I went to sleep!"^[10]

• episode 5. Gidget Gadget teleplay by Stephen Kandel

• • "Oh, that blip John--he should be horse whipped...and with a mean horse!"^[10]

• • "I think maybe the hardest thing for a teenager to learn is patience, but I'm working on it, and I may make it...if my family survives long enough."^[10]

• episode 6. A Hearse, A Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse teleplay by Louella MacFarlane

• • "A girl can handle any job a boy can, and I can prove it."^[10]

• • "What price independence? I've been fighting in the right war, but wearing the wrong uniform."^[10]

• episode 7. Gidget is a proper noun teleplay by Austin and Irma Kalish

• • "Through this door passes the most miserable girl in the world: me, Gidget, and all because of having to take a miserable foriegn language: English!"^[10]

• • "Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and your mascara runs."^[10]

• • "It's true you know: you're only young once...but if you work it right, once is enough."^[10]

• episode 8. Image Scrimage teleplay by Barbara Avedon

• • "You can't kick a gift horse in the teeth...especially if that horse is your father."^[10]

• episode 9. Is It Love or Symbiosis teleplay by A.J. Mady, story by A.J.Mady and Frederick Kohner

• • "Have you ever tried to have feminine dignity while you were chewing bubble gum?"^[10]

• • "Who Listens to John anyway? If he had any class he'd turn himself in."^[10]

• episode 10. All the Best Diseases Are Taken teleplay by Tony Wilson

• • "At first look it might seem dificult, but when you think about it, nothing is impossible when those arouned you truly believe."^[10]

• • "I never knew it was so much work settng up a spontaneous demonstration."^[10]

• episode 11. My Ever Faithful Friend teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "Anyone can learn the secret of pesonal magnetism; it can be summed up in two words: be natural."^[10]

• • "These days all our problems are solved by science. Science tells us how to live longer, how to travel in space and how to be beautiful."^[10]

• episode 12. Chivalry Isn't Dead teleplay by John McGreevey, story by Martin Ragaway

• • "Well I still say if we're not treated the way we want to be, it's our own fault."^[10]

• • "As Mrs. Revere said to Paul, 'How about a midnight snack?'"^[10]

• episode 13. The War Between Men Women and Gidget teleplay by Leo and Pauline Townsend

• • "Cheese, toung, peanutbutter, spaghetti, pumpernickle on the bottom, angelfood on the top. It's my heartbreak special--want a bite?"^[10]

• • "The big moral is: it's a lot easier to start a war than to end one. Anyway I decided that in the war between men and women I'd stick to personal combat. I figured that from now on I'd meet the enemy face to face. That way you get all the fun and none of the fallout."^[10]

• episode 14. Gidget's Foriegn Policy teleplay by Stephen Kandel

• • "In America everybody's equal, but frankly, just to survive a girl's got to be equal to at least three boys."^[10]

• • "Welcome to America-- some dope probably said that to the Japaneese beetle."^[10]

• episode 15. Now There's a Face teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote

• • "One thing about the ocean: all that salt water around and nobody notices a few tears."^[10]

• • "You have to let adults do things for you every now and then; it makes them feel better."^[10]

• episode 16. Too Many Cooks teleplay by Albert Mannheimer

• • "When you're here, life's a bowl af cream." (to Jeff)^[10]

• • "I'm fate's football."^[10]

• episode 17. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "How am I going to learn algebra from a teacher I've seen in a bathing suit?"^[10]

• episode 18. Like Voodoo teleplay by Albert Mannheimer

• • "Superstition is the wreckage of small minds."^[10]

• • "If we get one more psycologist in this family, I'm taking the next rocket to Mars!"^[10]

• episode 19. Gidget's Career teleplay by Joanna Lee

• • "Larue had been avoiding me like poison for the last three days. Now that's no way to treat a best friend...even one who stabs you in the back."^[10]

• episode 20. Ego-A-Go-Go teleplay by Barbara Avedon

• • "George Bernard Shaw once said that youth was wasted on the young. Well as far as I'm concerned, my share is up for grabs."^[10]

• episode 21. In and Out with the In-Laws teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• • "You know how stubborn Easterners are...some of them are still tryng to surf the Atlanic."^[10]

• episode 22. We Got Each Other teleplay by John Mc Greevey

• • "Sometimes I think I run very fast just to get back where I started, but that sounds like zen or something mystic, and I'm still much too immature for something like that.^[10]

• episode 23. Operation Shaggy Dog teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote

• • "How can you buy out a man's life? How can you pay him fairly and squarely for a lifetime of hard work?"^[10]

• episode 24. Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat teleplay by Barbara Avedon

• • "Oh here we go, folks: Sigmund Fraud and his electric couch!"^[10]

• • "I hate to be a bragging daughter, but I must have raised him right. I mean how many other parents dig the difference between rebelling and revolting?"^[10]

• episode 25. Love and the Single Gidget teleplay by John Mc Greevey and Stephen Kandel, story by Lee Karson

• • "News like this spreads like poison ivy."^[10]

• episode 26. Take a Lesson teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

• episode 27. Independence, Gidget Style teleplay by Joanna Lee

• • "You have to know how to handle parents; it's a real art."^[10]

• episode 28. One More For the Road teleplay by Irma and Austin Kalish

• • "When it comes to flowers, I'm all thumbs...and they're all green!"^[10]

• • "It's not easy to learn how to drive when you don't know anything about it; it's like looking a word up in the dictionary when you don't know how to spell it."^[10]

• episode 29. Ask Helpful Hanna teleplay byIrma Kaish, story by Janet Carson

• • "I think I just put my foot in something...and I've got a feeling it's my mouth."^[10]

• • "Meet the new poster girl for National Crumb week."^[10]

• episode 30. A Hard Night's Night teleplay by Barbara Avedon

• • "If your best friend is not William Shakespeare, and he asks you to read something he's written, go hide in your closet until he goes away. And make sure he takes his manuscript with him, because whoever said 'honesty is the best policy' had a couple of other policies too...like for flood and earthquake and broken friendships."^[10]

• episode 31.I Have This Friend Who... teleplay by John Mc Greevey, stoy by Gary Flaum

• • "In English Composition, my teacher's always nagging us not to use clich�s, and I suppose she's right as rain."^[10]

• • "A crowd's a crowd, no matter how many people are in it."^[10]

• episode 32. Don't Defrost the Alligator teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen

The New Gidget (1986-1988)

• "When you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong. But sometimes you can be right when you're wrong. If you're confused, hit the beach!"

Telemovies

Gidget Grows Up (1969)

Gidget Gets Married (1972)

Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985)

• "I'm always in over my head, even in heels."
• "Why am I smiling? Well, at twenty-seven it's fun to be told I can't see certain movies unless accompanied by an adult."

References

External Links

• Wikipedia article listing all episodes of the TV sitcom Gidget with original air dates, plot synopses and guest stars
• Frederick Kohner at NNDB
• Gidget (character) at IMDb
• Gidget (motion picture) at IMDb
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian at IMDb
• Gidget Goes to Rome at IMDb
• Gidget (TV Sitcom) at IMDb
• Gidget Grows Up at IMDb
• Gidget Gets Married at IMDb
• Gidget's Summer Reunion at IMDb
• The New Gidget at IMDb