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Gidget Grows Up

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.

Top 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

    Susan Batson

    Diana Otessa

  • Hal Frederick

    Hal Frederick

    Lee Basumba

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.

Rating

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