Gidget

Today I was visiting with a co-worker about my upcoming Chick Flick Festival. She was a Southern California surfer as a young woman, which may be why she told me about the Gidget movies of the 1960s. Now who could resist seeing a movie that has characters named Gidget, Moondoggie, Stinky, Hot Shot, and The Big Kahuna? Here is some information from Wikipedia. Gidget is the nickname of Frances Lawrence, a teenage character adapted for film and television from a novel by Frederick Kohner. The original Gidget was created by Kohner in his 1957 novel Gidget, The Little Girl With the Big Ideas, written in the first person and based on the accounts of his daughter Kathy of the surf culture of Malibu Point . . . In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the character Gidget was adapted for three films, all directed by Paul Wendkos: · Gidget (1959), starring Sandra Dee. · Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), starring Deborah Walley. · Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), starring Cindy Carol. NOTE: I had this experience on March 9, but wrote this entry on March 24, 2006.