Gidget (1959) | |
| Director(s) | Paul Wendkos |
| Producer(s) | Lewis J. Rachmil |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Romance |
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Gidget (1959) was a Comedy - Romance Film directed by Paul Wendkos and produced by Lewis J. Rachmil.
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Pages to Screen: Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
on Sep 15, 2023 From Comet Over HollywoodWhich is worse: the book version of ?Gidget Goes to Rome? or the feature film? Well, it?s tough to say. Let me provide some background and break it down. Similar to ?Gidget Goes Hawaiian,? author and screenwriter Frederick Kohner wrote the novelization of the feature film ?Gidget Goes to Rome? (1963... Read full article
Page to Screen: Gidget Goes Hawaiian
on Sep 10, 2023 From Comet Over Hollywood?It?s not the same, down by the sea ? since the Gidget came to Wakiki ?? It?s especially not the same since in the second Gidget film, ?Gidget Goes Hawaiian? (1961), the whole cast except for Moondoggie is different. Thankfully, the book version of ?Gidget Goes Hawaiian? is much better than the film... Read full article
Pages to Screen: Gidget (1959)
on Sep 5, 2023 From Comet Over HollywoodFrom Frankie and Annette beach party films to the Beach Boys singing ?Surfin? U.S.A,?? it all started because of one book: Gidget by Frederick Kohner. Published in 1957, Kohner based the book on the summer adventures of his daughter, Kathy. Kohner was a Hollywood screenwriter who left his home of A... Read full article
Gidget ( 1959 )
By The Metzinger Sisters on Jun 29, 2023 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversGidget, directed by Paul Wendkos, is a delightful coming-of-age film that captures the carefree spirit of surf culture in Southern California during the late 1950s. Sandra Dee stars as Francie Lawrence, a young girl who unexpectedly falls in love when her friends take her to the sunny beaches of Mal... Read full article
Review: Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (1972)
on Aug 27, 2021 From Comet Over HollywoodOne piece of the Gidget franchise has eluded me for a few years: the Hanna-Barbera produced cartoon ?Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection.? That?s right. Not only did the Gidget character find herself on the silver screen, TV shows and movies, and in books, Gidget was also featured in cartoon-form. Ai... Read full article
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The producer wanted Elvis Presley to play the leading male role but the studio declined because Presley was at the time too expensive.
James Darren was originally not selected to play Moondoggie because the role required two songs to sing and Darren was not well established as a singer. On his own, he cut a single with the studio's recording subsidiary Colpix Records which charted. Columbia changed their minds and gave him the role despite the fact that he couldn't surf and was a weak swimmer. He became a huge teen idol and subsequently repeated the Moondoggie role in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)with two other Gidgets: Deborah Walley and Cindy Carol.
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