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Gidget Grows Up is a 1969 American made-for-television comedy film directed by James Sheldon with stars Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare and Paul Petersen as well as alphabetically listed special guest stars Warner Anderson, Bob Cummings, Nina Foch and Paul Lynde. Freely adapted from the novel Gidget Goes New York by Frederick Kohner, the film premiered on ABC on December 30, 1969, and was intended as a pilot for a possible new Gidget series, possibly a sequel to the 1960s sitcom Gidget.




Plot


After two years of college abroad, Gidget returns to Santa Monica. She discovers that the letters she wrote to her boyfriend Jeff, intended to make him jealous, have backfired, and her attempts to patch things up with him are rebuffed. Inspired by a speech she hears on television made by the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, she hops a bus to New York City to work for the United Nations.
She meets the ambassador, who finds her a job, but because she has only two years of college education, the best position the United Nations will offer her is tour guide. She meets and has a fling with Alex Mac Laughlin, an Australian agronomist who finds her and two of her fellow employees an inexpensive Greenwich Village apartment, managed by the eccentric Louis B. Latimer, a grown child actor has-been attempting a comeback as an independent film director.
Gidget has a number of comical and romantic adventures before being reunited with former boyfriend Jeff.




Cast


Karen Valentine as Gidget
Edward Mulhare as Alex Mac Laughlin
Paul Petersen as Moondoggie
Guest stars in alphabetical order

Warner Anderson as Ambassador Post
Bob Cummings as Russ Lawrence
Nina Foch as Bibi Crosby
Paul Lynde as Louis B. Latimer




See also


Gidget (film)
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Gidget Goes to Rome
Gidget Gets Married
Gidget's Summer Reunion
The New Gidget
List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company
United Nations in popular culture




References






External links


Gidget Grows Up at IMDb
Gidget Grows Up at AllMovie
Gidget Grows Up at OVGuide, eight video clips comprising the entire film, more or less

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• Paul Lynde
• Gidget Grows Up
• Gidget
• Karen Valentine
• Gidget (TV series)
• Edward Mulhare
• Gidget Gets Married
• Cynthia Lynn
• Paul Lynde
• Robert Cummings
• Moondoggie