Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on September 15, 2023

Which is worse: the book version of “Gidget Goes to Rome” or the feature film? Well, it’s tough to say. Let me provide some background and break it down. Similar to “Gidget Goes Hawaiian,” author and screenwriter Frederick Kohner wrote the novelization of the feature film “Gidget Goes to Rome”...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on August 8, 2015

“Gidget Goes to Rome” isn’t the best of the three Gidget feature films, but it isn’t the worst. While Sandra Dee is the best actress who plays Gidget, Cindy Carol is a distance second. In this film, we join Gidget and her friends for a third summer. Gidget (Carol) is...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on July 9, 2013

We’ve gone around the world with the lovely Francie Lawrence, and like all good journeys it must come to an end.  Gidget started out as a girl surfer gaining the respect of the misanthropes she calls peers; next, she went to Hawaii, where love and bewilderment ensued; now, we’re in...   read more