Gidget Grows Up

Gidget Grows Up

Part of The Gidget Collection

1969•1h 15m•6.0/10

ComedyTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(2)

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.

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Production

Columbia Pictures Television, ABC, Screen Gems Television

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Karen Valentine

Karen Valentine

Gidget Lawrence

Edward Mulhare

Edward Mulhare

Alex MacLaughlin

Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen

Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin

Warner Anderson

Warner Anderson

Ambassador Post

Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

Russell Lawrence

Nina Foch

Nina Foch

Bibi Crosby

Paul Lynde

Paul Lynde

Louis B. Latimer

Susan Batson

Diana Otessa

Hal Frederick

Hal Frederick

Lee Basumba

Helen Funai

Helen Funai

Minnie Chan

Mario Aniov

Abdul Ahmed III

Gunilla Knudson

Katrina Lund

Doreen Lang

Doreen Lang

Mrs. Willard

Michael Lembeck

Michael Lembeck

Arnold

Davis Roberts

Davis Roberts

Bukumbu Representative

Cynthia Lynn

Cynthia Lynn

Dispatcher

Donald Symington

Donald Symington

Clerk

Harlen Carraher

Ben

Margot Jane

Rae Ellen

Leo G. Morrell

Turkish Delegate

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