Gidget Grows Up (1969)

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Released:
1969-12-30

Overview:
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

Director:
James Sheldon

Runtime:
1h 15min

Genre:
Comedy, TV Movie

  • Cast:
  • Karen Valentine
    as
    Gidget Lawrence
  • Edward Mulhare
    as
    Alex MacLaughlin
  • Paul Petersen
    as
    Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin
  • Warner Anderson
    as
    Ambassador Post
  • Robert Cummings
    as
    Russell Lawrence