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Gidget

1959, Movie, NR, 95 mins

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Watch at risk. Sugar-posioning, with the unctous Dee, as the all-American pertly perky happy-go-brainless model for countless teenagers in the late 1950s--today that seems scary. Dee plays Gidget (a nickname meaning "girl midget"), a whiny youngster who doesn't quite measure up to the chesty, bikinied girls on the beach. Her mom's reassurances come true when the two grooviest surfers in town, Moondoggie (James Darren) and Kahoona (Cliff Robertson), start paying Gidget some a... read more leave a comment
Year: 1959
Rated NR

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Cast
Sandra Dee: Francie
James Darren: Moondoggie
Cliff Robertson: Kahoona
Arthur O'Connell: Russell Lawrence
Mary LaRoche: Dorothy Lawrence
Joby Baker: Stinky

 

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A young girl (Sandra Dee) dreams of winning acceptance from a gang of surfers.
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