Gidget Grows Up (1969)

6.7/10 75 min 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.

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

Hal Frederick

Lee Basumba

Helen Funai

Minnie Chan

Doreen Lang

Mrs. Willard

Michael Lembeck

Arnold

Davis Roberts

Bukumbu Representative

Cynthia Lynn

Dispatcher

Donald Symington

Clerk

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