Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Hollywood released "Gidget" in 1959 it unleashed one of the first waves of mainstream attention and popularity for ...

Before the Beach Boys, before Frankie and Annette, there was Gidget, the spunky girl surfer who sparked a national obsession with beach culture. But Gidget was neither Sandra Dee, who played her ...

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Director Paul Wendkos, whose career spanned 50 years and covered some 100 films and television shows, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died due to a lung infection that followed a ...