Gidget Grows Up (1969)

12/30/1969 (US) • 1h 15m

Comedy, TV Movie

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.

Top Billed Cast

Karen Valentine

Gidget Lawrence

Edward Mulhare

Alex MacLaughlin

Paul Petersen

Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin

Warner Anderson

Ambassador Post

Robert Cummings

Russell Lawrence

Nina Foch

Bibi Crosby

Paul Lynde

Louis B. Latimer

Susan Batson

Diana Otessa

Hal Frederick

Lee Basumba


collection-back

Part of the The Gidget Collection

Includes Gidget, Gidget Goes to Rome, Gidget Goes Hawaiian

View The Collection

Recommendations

Six A.M.

85%

Scary Movie 2

58%

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

79%

Boy

59%

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - The Golden Seal

75%

The Way to the Heart

99%

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

67%

The Hours

73%

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

55%

Pop in Q

53%

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

54%

Around Robin

45%

The Terminators

41%

The Monster

70%

Dick Tracy

62%

Good Night, and Good Luck.

71%

Fallen Angels

77%

Merchants of Doubt

75%

Coplan Saves His Skin

48%

Mistress America

65%

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

california

tv production

© All Rights Reserved 2025