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I also noticed when watching all the movies -- first of all, the girl playing Gidget changed
in every film.
So it wasn't even like we cared that she had to be the same woman.
She was just this image and the boy stays the same.
James Darrin plays Moondoggie in all three of these films.
So it turns out to be a trilogy about the life of a boy who surfs and has an everchanging
girlfriend with the same name.
This is not at all what I expected to find when I came to this and he sings music.
So then we get Ruth Brooks Flippen who shows up and Ruth, she writes a bit of Gidget Goes
Hawaiian and she does Gidget Goes to Rome.
The second one is kind of silly and dumb.
I'm hoping that means the studio had choices about what got done and when it was successful
enough she had more of her own power in the third sequel where suddenly Gidget's in college.
She reads books again, just like the actual first book and she makes more interesting
decisions.