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Gidget is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy film directed by directed by Paul Wendkos and starring [3] [4] Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, and the Four Preps. The film is about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her romance with a young surfer.
James William Ercolani (June 8, 1936 – September 2, 2024), known by his stage name James Darren, was an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had notable starring and supporting roles in films including the youth and beach-culture film Gidget (1959) and its sequels.
Gidget Goes Hawaiian is a 1961 American romantic comedy musical film starring James Darren, Michael Callan and Deborah Walley.Released by Columbia Pictures, the film is a sequel to the 1959 Sandra Dee beach film vehicle Gidget.
But to young movie fans of the late 1950s, Darren would be remembered best as Moondoggie, the dark-haired surfer boy in the smash 1959 release Gidget. Sandra Dee starred as the title character, a ...
Darren first rose to fame as leading man Moondoggie in the 1959 surf movie Gidget and climbed the charts with the 1961 hit “Goodbye Cruel W James Darren, Veteran of T.J. Hooker and Deep Space ...
But to young movie fans of the late 1950s, he would be remembered best as Moondoggie, the dark-haired surfer boy in the smash 1959 release “Gidget.” Dee starred as the title character, a spunky Southern Californian who hits the beach and eventually falls in love with Moondoggie. “I was in love with Sandra,” Darren later recalled.
For Those Who Think Young is a 1964 beach party film shot in Techniscope, directed by Leslie H. Martinson and featuring James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Paul Lynde, Tina Louise, Bob Denver, Nancy Sinatra in her film debut, Robert Middleton, Ellen Burstyn (billed as Ellen McRae), Claudia Martin and Woody Woodbury.
James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in his sleep ...