The show, like the novel and film, focuses on surfing and boy-crazy teenager Frances Elizabeth "Gidget" Lawrence (future Academy Award and Emmy-winning actress Sally Field), living with her ...

Oscar-winning actress Sally Field’s career has spanned nearly 60 years, from the time she started playing the precocious teenager Gidget on TV to her new comedy "80 for Brady." On Sunday ...

Oscar winner Sally Field released ... Soon after, Field began going to auditions, and by the end of the year, she had been cast as Gidget — as Field said, “the quintessential, all-American ...

Two-time Oscar (“Norma Rae,” “Places in the Heart”) and three-time Emmy Award (“Sybil,” “ER,” “Brothers and Sisters”) winning Sally Field is the latest recipient of the Life ...

Gidget was canceled after a single season amid middling viewership. While the show didn’t perform well when it premiered, a summer rerun garnered more attention and helped launch Sally Field’s ...

American Broadcasting Companies via Getty; Frazer Harrison/Getty Over five decades, Sally Field has had an iconic career, from her early days in the cute-as-a-button TV roles of Gidget and The ...

It might not be a traditional holiday special, but Sally Field‘s The Flying ... it was actually recycled scenes from Field’s earlier sitcom, 1965’s Gidget? Producers originally wanted ...

Sally Field is opening about her ... months before she would headline the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget and was a deeply "traumatic" experience, Field shared in an Instagram video posted on Sunday.

Among the actors to portray Gidget were Sandra Dee and Sally Field. After the original “Gidget” movie, in 1959, Hollywood churned out any number of sequels. “Gidget Grows Up.” ...

Oscar-winning actress Sally Field’s career has spanned nearly 60 years, from the time she started playing the precocious teenager Gidget on TV to her new comedy "80 for Brady." On Sunday ...