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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
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.
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Genre:Comedy, TV Movie
Written By:John McGreevey
In Theaters:12/30/1969
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Runtime:75 minutes
Studio:Columbia Pictures Television, ABC, Screen Gems Television
Cast
James Sheldon
Director
Karen Valentine
Gidget Lawrence
Edward Mulhare
Alex MacLaughlin
Paul Petersen
Jeff 'Moondoggie' Griffin
Warner Anderson
Ambassador Post
Robert Cummings
Russell Lawrence
Nina Foch
Bibi Crosby
Paul Lynde
Louis B. Latimer
Susan Batson
Diana Otessa
Hal Frederick
Lee Basumba
Helen Funai
Minnie Chan
Mario Aniov
Abdul Ahmed III
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