Gidget Grows Up

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MovieComedy, TV Movie19691h 15m

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.

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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.

Directed by: James Sheldon
Written by: John McGreevey
Genres: Comedy, TV Movie
Released: December 30, 1969
Runtime: 1h 15m
Status: Released
Language: English
Countries: United States of America
Studios: Columbia Pictures Television, ABC, Screen Gems Television

Part of a collectionThe Gidget CollectionFilm 4 of 6Also in this collection: Gidget, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, Gidget Gets Married, Gidget's Summer ReunionView the collection