Picture sleeve featuring Sandra Dee and Jimmy Darren for the 7″ release of the title song from Gidget (1959) in Denmark, backed with There’s No Such Thing. (Discogs listing).
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young folk soaking up sun
“GIDGET” is enough to make anybody leave one of the neighborhood theatres, where it opened yesterday, and light out for Long Island Sound. Pictorially, this mild little Columbia frolic, about a teen-age girl with boy trouble, seems an ideal way to usher in the beach season. Most of the story spills along a balmy California…
April brings the boys!
Or “April discovers the men,” also known as Gidget (1959).
Mary LaRoche 1920 – 1998
Mary LaRoche: born 20 July 1920 New York City; died 9 February 1999 Rochester New York; worked mostly on and off Broadway in musicals, screen credits 1945 – 1977 including Gidget (1959), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Karen (TV 1964) and The Swinger (1965).
Surfing in babydoll pajamas
The original Gidget (1959) – not Pajama Party – with Sue George, Sandra Dee, and Mary LaRoche.
Between Gidget and a Summer Place…
The Wild and the Innocent (1959): In this comedy western, Audie Murphy and Sandra Dee play a couple of innocents from the mountains who find themselves out of their depth in an unruly town. Radio Times.
That Funny Feeling (1965)
That Funny Feeling (1965) Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin and Donald O’Connor as Harvey Granson, co-starring Nita Talbot • Larry Storch • Leo G. Carroll. FOR doodleheaded drivel and inane tedium, “That Funny “Feeling” and “Fluffy” take the cake. This three-hour, Universal package of froth, weighing about a ton, opened yesterday at neighborhood theaters. It is…
She takes his apartment …then steals his heart!
No wonder he’s got That Funny Feeling (1965): another terrible Sandra Dee likeness on an Australian illustrated daybill poster, though with a better Bobby Darin.
Hang around for the FUN!
In “If a Man Answers,” Mr. Darin and Miss Dee play a newly married couple who are plagued by a series of minuscule problems that make a viewer wonder if marriage is not wasted on youth. New York Times, 22 December 1962.
in Eastman COLOR
A better likeness of Sandra Dee in this Australian illustrated daybill poster for If A Man Answers (1962), but Bobby Darin looks like an overweight boxer.
Be the first to fall in love with…
GIDGET (1959) co-starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O’Connell with Mary LaRoche, Jo Morrow and The Four Preps | The joyous movie based on that book!
sweetheart of the beach generation
Original Australian illustrated daybill for Gidget (1959) featuring poor likenesses of Cliff Robertson, James Darren and Sandra Dee – she looks more like Pam Colbert.
Gidget’s boy friends
Hot Shot (Robert Ellis) and Moondoggie (James Darren) carry Gidget (Sandra Dee) down the beach while Lover Boy (Tom Laughlin, rear left), Lord Byron (Burt Metcalfe, rear center), Stinky (Joby Baker, rear right) and Waikiki (Doug McClure, foreground right) run in with surfboards. Who’s the woman in the black one-piece under the umbrella?
Hot Shot, Waikiki, Lover Boy, Stinky, Moondoggie, Lord Byron, Kahuna
Left to right: Hot Shot (Robert Ellis), Waikiki (Doug McClure), Lover Boy (Tom Laughlin, behind Sandra Dee), Stinky (Joby Baker), Moondoggie (James Darren, with Shary Marshall), Lord Byron (Burt Metcalfe), Kahuna (Cliff Robertson) in Gidget (1959).
Betty Louise’s boyish hairstyle
Sue George‘s short hair while for Gidget (1959) was useful for her role in Jefferson Drum — “The Outlaw” (TV 1958) as “a girl disguised as a boy” discovered on the open prairie by titular western hero Jefferson Drum.
Gidget’s friend Betty Louise
Sue George was 25 years old when filming Gidget in the summer of 1958 and had been married for 2 years to insurance salesman James Thobe.
Gidget’s friend Mary Lou
Jo Morrow was 18 years old when shooting Gidget in the summer of 1958. She appeared uncredited in Ten North Frederick (1958). She shot Juke Box Rhythm after Gidget, but it was released a week before the surf movie in April 1959.
Nan, Mary Lou and Patti
Gidget (1959): Gidget (Sandra Dee, born 1942), Gidget’s friends: Nan (Yvonne Craig, born 1939), Mary Lou (Jo Morrow, born 1939), and Patti (Patti Kane, born 1932).
Gidget in thumbnails
Gidget (released 10 April 1959) Columbia Pictures. Based on the novel by Frederick Kohner, directed by Paul Wendkos, starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, with Yvonne Craig, Joby Baker, Doug McClure.
Gidget’s last movie
Ms. Dee‘s last feature film was “The Dunwich Horror” (1970). Washington Post.
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
The Dunwich Horror (1970) American International Pictures. Starring Sandra Dee.
Cliff Robertson 1923 – 2011
Cliff Roberston (born 9 September 1923; died 10 September 2011) as Burt Vail aka ‘The Big Kahuna’ in Gidget (1959). When the movie was shot in August 1958, Robertson was almost 45 years old, Sandra Dee was 16, and James Darren was 22.
Picture Show and TV Mirror
Cliff Robertson, Sandra Dee and James Darren in “Gidget” (1959).
Gidget in England
A wet Sandra Dee in Gidget (1959) the movie on the dustjacket of Gidget the novel by Frederick Kohner (British first hardback edition, 1958).
a candid and refreshing novel
Frederick Kohner’s 1957 novel, Gidget, which sprang from his daughter’s adventures with a gang of Malibu surfers, sold nearly two million copies and spawned seven sequels, a hit single by James Darren, a 1959 movie starring Sandra Dee and a TV series with Sally Field. Before Hollywood let up, Gidget would Go Hawaiian, Go to…
Gidget and Moondoggie
James Darren (Moondoggie) and Sandra Dee (Gidget) in a publicity photo for Gidget (1959).
Gidget and Gidget
Kathy Kohner (born 19 January 1941) and Sandra Dee (born 23 April 1942). “Somebody actually did call me ‘Gidget’ at the beach,” recalls Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, 37. “I asked, ‘What does it mean?’ and he said, ‘Girl midget.’ That’s how it started. And then my dad wrote the book.” People.
Honeymooners at Idlewild Airport
The bride wore a purple cocktail dress, no shoes, and one of America’s favorite smiles; the groom, a jacket and one of America’s favorite snarls. The 10-minute ceremony at music publisher Don Kirshner’s Camden, N.J., home was preceded by a high-speed car chase to elude reporters, but when the smoke cleared on Dec. 1, 1960,…
Sun and Surf and the Story of a Teen-Age Girl
“GIDGET” is enough to make anybody leave one of the neighborhood theatres, where it opened yesterday, and light out for Long Island Sound. Pictorially, this mild little Columbia frolic, about a teen-age girl with boy trouble, seems an ideal way to usher in the beach season. Most of the story spills along a balmy California…
James Darren
James Darren: born James William Ercolani, 8 June 1936, Philadelphia USA. First credit Rumble on the Docks (1956) with Timothy Carey. Selected credits: Gidget (1959 – Moondoggie) with Sandra Dee Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961 – Moondoggie) with Deborah Walley Gidget Goes To Rome (1963 – Moondoggie) with Cindy Carol For Those Who Think Young (1964)…
The blond all-American girl next door
Sandra Dee
Debbie does Deutschland
A German postcard of Debbie Watson in the title role of Tammy (TV 1965 – 1966).
Paul Wendkos 1925 – 2009
Paul Wendkos: born 10 September 1925, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; died 12 November 2009, Malibu California. Director in Hollywood 1957 – 1999, including “Gidget” 1959, “Gidget Goes Hawaiian” 1961, and “Gidget Goes To Rome” 1963. Full obituary below the photo.
Look at her, she’s Sandra!
Sandra Dee: born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, 23 April 1942 or 1944, Bayonne, New Jersey. Married to Bobby Darin, 1 Dec 1960 – 7 Mar 1967. Son Dodd Mitchell Darin born 16 Dec 1961. Died 20 February 2005, Thousand Oaks, California. First of seven actresses to play ‘Gidget’ between 1959 and 1986; the second of three…
Little Miss Dee and Mr. Donahue
Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee pose in a studio for the movie A Summer Place (1959). ‘Summer Place’ Opens – HOWARD THOMPSON, The New York Times October 23, 1959 “… two mismated parents, played by Miss McGuire and Mr. Egan, blandly resume a twenty – year – old liaison (in a boathouse). … the storm…
Look at Sandra
Sandra Dee Born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, 23 April 1942 or 1944, Bayonne, New Jersey. Died 20 February 2005, Thousand Oaks, California. Married to Bobby Darin, 1 Dec 1960 – 7 Mar 1967. Son Dodd Mitchell Darin born 16 Dec 1961. First of seven actresses to play ‘Gidget’ between 1959 and 1986. Second of three actresses…
Jimmy Stewart’s girl
Sandra Dee in Take Her, She’s Mine (1963), as the daughter of Jimmy Stewart, in a story based on the experiences of the parents of writer/director Nora Ephron.
Gidget and surfer dog
Sandra Dee, 62; Actress Was a Teen Idol in 1960s as Star of ‘Gidget,’ ‘Tammy’ Films February 21, 2005|Myrna Oliver | Times Staff Writer. “Sandra Dee, the blond all-American girl next door whose star turns as “Gidget” and “Tammy” made her a teen idol in the 1960s, a status reinforced by her Hollywood marriage to…
Gidget and husband
Screen Star Sandra Dee Dies at 62 By Marla Lehner | 02/20/2005. Sandra Dee, the blonde teen queen who starred in Gidget and was once married to singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday at age 62. She passed away at 5:57 a.m. at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., nursing supervisor…
Alexandra Zuck
Sandra Dee: born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, 23 April 1942 or 1944, Bayonne, New Jersey.
Young Gidget
Screen Star Sandra Dee Dies at 62 By Marla Lehner | 02/20/2005. Sandra Dee, the blonde teen queen who starred in Gidget and was once married to singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday at age 62. She passed away at 5:57 a.m. at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., nursing supervisor…
Sophisticated Gidget
Actress Sandra Dee dies. Death follows treatment for kidney disease, pneumonia. Sunday, February 20, 2005. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Actress Sandra Dee died Sunday at a California hospital, her son told CNN. Dodd Darin, the son of the late singer Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, said his mother died at 6 a.m. (9 a.m….
Glamorous Gidget
Sandra Dee, 62; Actress Was a Teen Idol in 1960s as Star of ‘Gidget,’ ‘Tammy’ Films February 21, 2005|Myrna Oliver | Times Staff Writer. “Sandra Dee, the blond all-American girl next door whose star turns as “Gidget” and “Tammy” made her a teen idol in the 1960s, a status reinforced by her Hollywood marriage to…
Resplendent in a scintillating Jean Louis creation
“In “If a Man Answers,” Mr. Darin and Miss Dee (resplendent in seemingly dozens of scintillating Jean Louis creations) play a newly married couple who are plagued by a series of minuscule problems that make a viewer wonder if marriage is not wasted on youth. It is all meant to be light, debonair and in…
Dressed for a man to answer
If A Man Answers (1962) “Miss Dee appears chic, pretty, and, as previously noted, dressed to the nines. Mr. Darin chomps a pipe, is cool in his repartee and casual in the extreme, without adding anything noticeable to the art of acting. And Cesar Romero, as the invented lover (and father of Mr. Darin) is…
Sandra and her sisters
Until They Sail (1957): Sandra Dee is sweet and unspoiled as the teen-age sister saddened by her family’s misfortunes. The New York Times.
Gidget and her husband
Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin are husband and wife in private life, who represent, in some quarters, the epitome of American young-marrieds. In “If a Man Answers,” Mr. Darin and Miss Dee (resplendent in seemingly dozens of scintillating Jean Louis creations) play a newly married couple who are plagued by a series of minuscule problems…
Big Kahuna, Moondoggie and Gidget
Cliff Robertson and James Darren carrying Sandra Dee in a publcity phto for Gidget (1959)
Dick Clark Goes For “Gidget!”
Columbia Pictures presents GiDGET co-starring Sandra Dee • Cliff Robertson • James Darren • Arthur O’Connell
Picture Show and TV Mirror, October 10th, 1959
Cliff Robertson, Sandra Dee and James Darren in “Gidget”
Demure Yet Sensual Gidget
“The demure yet sensual Sandra Dee tugged America’s heartstrings as the girl plus midget — Gidget — in the seminal film of that name in 1959. Teens and their parents alike hoped that she would make the right coming-of-age decisions between the rough-cut surfer played by Cliff Robertson and Moondoggie, played by James Darren. Somehow…
Girl + Midget = Gidget
“Sandra Dee is the ‘gidget’ of the title, being a young woman, so slight in stature she is tagged with a nickname which is a contraction of girl and midget. Dee is in that crucial period of growing up where she doesn’t like boys very much but is beginning to realize they are going to…
Gidget #1
“Sandra Dee manages to be an appealing little hard-head, as she becomes smitten with James Darren and Cliff Robertson.” – Howard Thompson, NY Times April 23, 1959.
Sandra sings folk in ‘Take Her She’s Mine’ (1963)
Jenny Maxwell, Sandra Dee, Cynthia Pepper and Charla Doherty as college girls in Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
Sandra Dee and Bob Denver protesting
Sandra Dee and Bob Denver as college students in Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
Hank, Pat and Dick in ‘Doctor, You’ve Got To Be Kidding’ (1967)
Sandra Dee‘s three suitors and would-be fathers-to-her-child: Dwayne Hickman (Dick), Dick Kallman (Pat) and Bill Bixby (Hank) in the comedy Doctor, You’ve Got To Be Kidding (1967).
Sandra Dee sings
Sandra Dee in Doctor, You’ve Got to Be Kidding! (1967)
Sandra Dee on a round bed in a white bikini
Sandra Dee (1942 – 2005)
Gidget #1
Sandra Dee (1942 – 2005)
Moondoggie and Gidget – original
James Darren and Sandra Dee in a publicity photo for Gidget (1959)
Sandra Dee wearing little except a feather boa
Sandra Dee, “Gidget #1” and “Tammy #2”, in a publicity photo for Take Her, She’s Mine (1963), as she appears in her father Jimmy Stewart’s nightmare of what his daughter might be doing in Paris.
Sandra Dee in a polka-dotted bikini top
Sandra Dee in Take Her, She’s Mine (1963), as the daughter of Jimmy Stewart, in a story based on the experiences of the parents of writer/director Nora Ephron.
Frankie Avalon: “A portrait of my dream girl”
Are you the girl who can win Frankie‘s heart? POPULAR SCREEN January 1960 Edd Byrnes | Sandra Dee | Fabian | Elvis
George Hamilton
Above: George Hamilton with co-star Dolores Hart in the original beach holiday movie, Where The Boys Are (1960). George Hamilton: born George Stevens Hamilton IV, 12 August 1939, Memphis Tennessee. First credit: The Veil (TV 1958) ’The Return of Madame Vernoy’ Krishna Vernoy … Where The Boys Are (1960) Ryder Smith … Doctor, You’ve Got…
A Man Could Get Killed (1966) hedge
Sandra Dee and Tony Franciosa
A Man Could Get Killed (1966) fish
Sandra Dee and Tony Franciosa
A Man Could Get Killed (1966) champagne
Tony Franciosa and Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee in a polka dot bikini
Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
Sandra Dee and James Darren for ‘Gidget’
Sandra’s dreamboat is James Darren
Sandra Dee in ‘Take Her, She’s Mine’
Sandra Dee in Take Her, She’s Mine (1963)
Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee: born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck, 23 April 1942 or 1944, Bayonne, New Jersey. Married to Bobby Darin, 1 Dec 1960 – 7 Mar 1967. Son Dodd Mitchell Darin born 16 Dec 1961. Died 20 February 2005, Thousand Oaks, California. First of seven actresses to play ‘Gidget’ between 1959 and 1986; the second of three…
Gidget (1959)
Gidget (Columbia 10-Apr-1959) dir. Paul Wendkos Girls: Sandra Dee, Yvonne Craig Boys: James Darren Olds: Cliff Robertson Music: The Four Preps Check out my main site: Actresses of the 50s and 60s. It is also autopublished to Tumblr: 24 Femmes Per Second.
Beach Party Movies 