Gidget Grows Up

Gidget Grows Up

1969 · 75 min · ★ 6.7 · Comedy, TV Movie

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.

Directed by James Sheldon · Written by John McGreevey

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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

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