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Gidget Grows Up

Gidget Grows Up (1969)

1h 15m | PG-13

⭐ 6 / 10

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

Studio: Columbia Pictures Television

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie

Video: 720p

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Cast

Karen Valentine

Karen Valentine

as Gidget Lawrence

Edward Mulhare

Edward Mulhare

as Alex MacLaughlin

Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen

as Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin

Warner Anderson

Warner Anderson

as Ambassador Post

Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

as Russell Lawrence

Nina Foch

Nina Foch

as Bibi Crosby