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 ...

“Gidget Grows Up.” “Gidget Goes to Rome.” “Gidget Gets Married.” And so on. Half a century later, the onetime real-life surfer girl heroine — who was the basis of a nonfiction book ...

Growing up on South 10th Street in South Philadelphia ... Selznick's niece), and he went on to sign a contract with the studio. The Gidget movies made him extremely popular with young ladies.