In her youth, she was a real-life surfer girl heroine who inspired the “Gidget” movies, TV show and a book. Among the actors to portray Gidget were Sandra Dee and Sally Field. After the ...

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved ...

(“Gidget” later became a television show ... and doing guest spots and small recurring roles in TV shows such as “The Love Boat,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “Fantasy Island.” ...

"Gidget" later became a television show ... and doing guest spots and small recurring roles in TV shows such as "The Love Boat," "Hawaii Five-O" and "Fantasy Island." Darren was a series regular ...

The actor was best known for his role in the 1959 film Gidget, as well as his TV role decades later on T.J. Hooker. At the start of his career, Darren was considered to be a teen idol. According ...

At the same time, she played Larue Wilson on The New Gidget from 1986-87 ... where she received a B.S. in Radio, TV and Film Performance before moving to Los Angeles and being cast in the title ...

James Darren, who became an instant teen idol as the boyish surfer Moondoggie in the “Gidget” movies and went on to a prolific career in TV and music, has died. He was 88. Darren went to a Los ...

Darren remained a staple on TV, appearing as the lead on the sci ... role of Moondoggie — a surfer boy in the hit 1959 film “Gidget.” Getty Images Born James Ercolani in 1936, the actor ...

(“Gidget” later became a television show ... and doing guest spots and small recurring roles in TV shows such as “The Love Boat,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “Fantasy Island.” ...

Actor and singer James Darren, who became famous after starring the Gidget movies and on TV in shows like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and T.J Hooker, has died. He was 88 years old, per TMZ.

James Darren in 'For Those Who Think Young (1964), left, and with Sandra Dee in 'Gidget' (1959 ... He continued in Hollywood in the TV realm, with popular series like the 1966 sci-fi show The ...