The absolute ultimate!

The death of Sandra Dee in February inspired me to request Gidget from the library--others, too, apparently, because I just got it this week. It was not at all what I expected--an extended dumb blonde joke with a few beach dance scenes thrown in. Wonder how I got that impression?

Frances Lawrence, nicknamed Gidget during the course of the movie, is a straight A high school student, cellist, and tomboy. There is a dopey fifties moral, but (similar to Wizard of Oz) the story doesn't really support the moral. Instead, you get to see a young woman who usually gets the thing she works for and when she doesn't, she learns from the experience.

The movie inspired this conversation:

Gidget: You can learn anything from books.
Joy: She's going to grow up to be a librarian!
Rick: Gidget Goes to Library School

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