Do you remember the Gidget TV show cast? Well those actors, and the show itself, found their inspiration in the 1957 novel Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. Written by author Frederick Kohner, ...

In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative ...

Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell ...

James Darren, who found teen heartthrob fame as Moondoggie in the 1959 surfer film “Gidget” and whose scenes of sun-kissed beaches with star Sandra Dee helped launch the California surfing craze, died ...