Gidget Grows Up

Dec 30, 1969

1h 15m

★ 6.0

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.

Genres

Comedy

TV Movie

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures Television

ABC

Screen Gems Television

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Cast

Gidget Lawrence

Karen Valentine

Alex MacLaughlin

Edward Mulhare

Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin

Paul Petersen

Ambassador Post

Warner Anderson

Russell Lawrence

Robert Cummings

Bibi Crosby

Nina Foch

Louis B. Latimer

Paul Lynde

Diana Otessa

Susan Batson

Lee Basumba

Hal Frederick

Minnie Chan

Helen Funai

Abdul Ahmed III

Mario Aniov

Katrina Lund

Gunilla Knudson

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