Gidget Grows Up (1969)
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.
Director: James Sheldon
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Karen Valentine as Gidget Lawrence |
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Edward Mulhare as Alex MacLaughlin |
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Paul Petersen as Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin |
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Warner Anderson as Ambassador Post |
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Robert Cummings as Russell Lawrence |
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Nina Foch as Bibi Crosby |
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Paul Lynde as Louis B. Latimer |
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Susan Batson as Diana Otessa |
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Hal Frederick as Lee Basumba |
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Helen Funai as Minnie Chan |
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Mario Aniov as Abdul Ahmed III |
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Gunilla Knudson as Katrina Lund |
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Doreen Lang as Mrs. Willard |
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Michael Lembeck as Arnold |
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Davis Roberts as Bukumbu Representative |
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Cynthia Lynn as Dispatcher |
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Donald Symington as Clerk |
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Harlen Carraher as Ben |
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Margot Jane as Rae Ellen |
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Leo G. Morrell as Turkish Delegate |
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Lloyd Kino as Japanese Delegate |
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Ugo Bianchi as Italian Delegate |
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Caryl Lincoln as Tour Group Member |
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George Boyce as Tour Group Member |
| Directing | James Sheldon | Director |
| Production | Harry Ackerman | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Frederick Kohner | Novel |
| Writing | John McGreevey | Writer |
| Art | Howard Campbell | Art Direction |
| Sound | Shorty Rogers | Music |
| Production | Jerome Courtland | Producer |
| Art | Ross Bellah | Art Direction |
| Editing | Aaron Nibley | Editor |
| Art | Sidney Clifford | Set Decoration |
| Camera | John M. Stephens | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Michael J. Dmytryk | Assistant Director |