Gidget Grows Up
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
75 min
Release Date
1969-12-30
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
2
Vote Average
6
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
Helen Funai
Minnie Chan
Mario Aniov
Abdul Ahmed III
Gunilla Knudson
Katrina Lund
Doreen Lang
Mrs. Willard
Michael Lembeck
Arnold
Davis Roberts
Bukumbu Representative
Cynthia Lynn
Dispatcher
Donald Symington
Clerk
Harlen Carraher
Ben
Margot Jane
Rae Ellen
Leo G. Morrell
Turkish Delegate
Lloyd Kino
Japanese Delegate
Ugo Bianchi
Italian Delegate
Caryl Lincoln
Tour Group Member
George Boyce
Tour Group Member
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