Gidget Goes to Rome

Gidget Goes to Rome is a 1963 Columbia Pictures Eastmancolor feature film starring Cindy Carol as the archetypal high school teen surfer girl originally created by Sandra Dee in the 1959 film Gidget. The film is the third of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos and expands upon Gidgets romance with boyfriend Moondoggie. The screenplay was written by Ruth Brooks Flippen based on characters created by Frederick Kohner. Veterans of previous Gidget films making appearances include James Darren as Moondoggie, Joby Baker, and Jean Jeff Donnell as Gidgets mom, Mrs. Lawrence. The film has been released to VHS and DVD.

Bosley Crowther noted in the New York Times ofSeptember 1963, When Gidget, played with the proper pout and correct ingenuousness by Cindy Carollsic, arrives in Rome with her group of happy friends, she is bound to fall in love with a married and handsome Italian magazine writer, enjoy such exotic delicacies as fettucini and chicken cacciatore, and experience the thrill of attending a Dolce Vita cocktail party. As one of Gidgets friends explains, its part of her growing up. Gidget falls out of love in time...and all ends happily. Jeff sums up the entire experience in two immortal sentences I guess everybody falls in love in Rome in the summer time. Its that old devil Italian moon.

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