''Gidget Grows Up'' is a 1969 American

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directed by James Sheldon with stars Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare and Paul Petersen as well as alphabetically listed special guest stars

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, Bob Cummings, Nina Foch and

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. 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''."Gidget is Returning to the Screen--Only Now She's a Valentine". ''Los Angeles Times'' December 28, 1969: L 39 d.

Plot

After two years of college abroad, Gidget returns to

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. 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

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, she hops a bus to

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to work for the

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. 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

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who finds her and two of her fellow employees an inexpensive

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apartment, managed by the eccentric Louis B. Latimer, a grown child actor has-been attempting a comeback as an

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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 *

as Ambassador Post * Bob Cummings as Russ Lawrence * Nina Foch as Bibi Crosby *

as Louis B. Latimer

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