As a pioneer of early California surfing, a young highschooler named Kathy “Gidget” Kohner began riding waves at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach in the mid-to-late 1950s. Even more so, then, the scene at ...

After the original “Gidget” movie, in 1959, Hollywood churned out any number of sequels. “Gidget Grows Up.” “Gidget Goes to Rome.” “Gidget Gets Married.” And so on. Half a century later, the onetime ...

Hollywood is looking to catch a new Gidget wave. Pterodactyl Prods. and “300” producer Mark Canton are teaming to bring the sun and surf icon back to film and TV for the first time in more than two ...

When Hollywood released "Gidget" in 1959 it unleashed one of the first waves of mainstream attention and popularity for surfing in America. All of a sudden, that young teenage girl from Malibu was ...

James Darren, who found teen heartthrob fame as Moondoggie in the 1959 surfer film “Gidget” and whose scenes of sun-kissed beaches with star Sandra Dee helped launch the California surfing craze, died ...

Next time you're out enjoying the swell, you might spot an unlikely surfer: Gidget the Surfing Pug. Yes, this dog knows how to really ride a wave. However, Gidget's biggest passion isn't surfing. It's ...