Gidget (1959)
Sandra Dee: Francie Lawrence aka Gidget
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Quotes
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Moondoggie : Don't you find Kahuna to be a little on the lazy side?
Gidget : Love makes room for fault.
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Gidget : Oh boy, the bigger they are the dopier they come.
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Gidget : You better get out of the sun before you melt.
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Gidget : Honest to goodness it's the absolute ultimate!
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Gidget : Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. It positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had.
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Gidget : What is it?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : It's time for you go to go home that's what it is. Before I forget it's just a game.
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Gidget : Well all we need to do for awhile... until Kahuna takes notice is pretend like we're mad for each other.
Moondoggie : On the surface only of course?
Gidget : Oh yeah on the surface only of course.
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Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence : A girl does have to become a woman, but you've got it a little mixed up, Francie. Come here. Grandma's old sampler, remember? Read it.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : "To be a real woman is to bring out the best in a man." Sweet, but tell it to the boys today.
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[first lines]
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : This summer was the turning point in my life. For 16 years, I'd gone blindly along enjoying myself like a fool who never guesses what's in store for her. Then...
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Hey, you know, I kind of like being called that now.
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : What's that? Gidget?
[singing]
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Although she's just small fry, Just about so-high, Gidget is the one for me, A regular tomboy, But dressed for a prom, Boy, how cute, Can one girl be? Although she's not king size, Her finger is ring size, Gidget is the one for me...
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Gidget : Boy I hope you are a better actor then student of human nature.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : I'm no dame!
Lord Byron : Oh, well, what do you know? It has all the earmarks of a dame.
Lover Boy : You better get your monocle, Lord Byron. Those are not ears. It's a dame all right, only kind of a pint-sized version.
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Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Please, no tourists, Kahuna.
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Hey, Francie's no tourist. She's got a real yen to pick up on surfing.
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : That gidget?
Lord Byron : A gidget.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Hey, wait a minute, fellas. Let me in on the gag too, huh?
Lover Boy : Well, you see, it's arrived at through osmosis.
Hot Shot : Yeah. Girl and midget: a gidget.
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Patti : Now, hear this, Francie Lawrence. The day, the hour, and the moment has arrived.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Not for me, it hasn't. Aw, gee, Patti, last year and the year before, didn't we all have a ball? I mean, why can't we go on being like that always? Why do we have to spoil it all?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Gee, all I wanted to do is surf. That's all.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Pop, can I get you your slippers? How about a pipe?
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Russell Lawrence : It's too much money.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Oh, Daddy, I'd work like a slave for it. Please?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : This surfboard is a gilt-edge guarantee for a summer of sheer happiness!
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : What'll happen to your future? I mean, doesn't everybody have to have a goal or something?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Who said? There's your answer, little one. "Who said?"
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : You done much surfing?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Uh, no, not too much. Yesterday was my first. Boy, was it ever exciting! It was like nothing I ever felt before! Whoop! We're on an elevator headed for the sky. And then, zoom! Speeding across the ocean, on top of the world! It was the ultimate!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : The big kick, huh? Sounds like you're a goner, kid.
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Lord Byron : Hey, Hey. Maybe we could let the Gidget run delivery service from the hot dog stand.
Hot Shot : Boolee! Boolee.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Oh, I'd be glad to!
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : What jet-propelled him all of a sudden?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Gosh, I owe you my life!
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Forget it, will you? The way we see it around here, the Kahuna and me, nobody owes anybody anything. Not if they play it smart. Not if they don't let themselves get involved. Why don't you run along home, kid?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Boy, are you a grouch.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Hey, come on, you're tickling me.
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Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence : Glad you had such a good time at the beach.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Oh, yeah, it was creamy!
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Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence : Darling, you like boys, don't you?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, sure. I mean, well, boys are the most fun, but - well - I mean, I just can't stand when they start smooching and pawing and - Well, level with me, Mom, doesn't that kind of stuff make your skin crawl?
Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence : Well, it would depend on who.
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Russell Lawrence : Francie! Shut off that infernal racket.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Infernal racket.
[turns off her record player]
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : No wonder they call them the Lost Generation.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : It probably won't happen to me before I'm middle-aged.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : it's perfectly obvious that you get a man through his own interests.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Honest, fellows, I'd love a luau. When is it?
Hot Shot : Not for a couple of weeks. But don't give it another thought, baby.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : But why?
Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Because it's not a coming-out party.
Waikiki : And it's not a weenie-roast.
Hot Shot : As a matter of fact, honey, this luau is not a luau...
Stinky : It's an orgy!
Hot Shot : Yeah! Yeah, yeah.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Kahuna, I want to come to that luau!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Baby-doll, what is it with you? Don't you ever give up?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, not when I want something! Well, it's like anything, you want it bad enough, you work for it! And right now what I want more than anything else in the whole wide *world* is to go to that luau! Well, Kahuna, you know yourself, it's the bang-up finish to the whole summer! Well, it's like graduation day. I mean, it's the ultimate!
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Oh, Gidget, Gidget, Gidget.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Love makes room for faults.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Practically any fool could have seen, the whole summer long, the one I'm gone on. Kahuna, of course.
Moondoggie : Kahuna?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, who else?
Moondoggie : Why, you must be kidding. He's twice your age.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Oh, I know, Oedipus and all that. It's called a father complex. Only, the way I feel about Kahuna - well, it's just not daughterly.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Moondoggie. I - I mean, golly, who cares about him?
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Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie : Listen, maybe the Kahuna's gone off his rocker, but you, on one of his little private parties? Gidge, you don't know what you're getting into.
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, a girl has to get started sometime and the Kahuna has always been a great coach.
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Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : Outside, the ocean. Inside, you and me, and nothing else matters, hmm? Who was it that said, "Suspended in time and space," "your lips on mine, the soft contours of... "
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : I don't know.
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : I did. I just made it up.
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Well, how about it?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : How about what?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : How about one of your little private parties?
Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna : How about one of my little - private parties? Are you, um, are you sure that's want you want?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Gee, this is a real den of iniquity, isn't it?
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Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : I'm hopeless. I can tell you right now, I'll probably die an old maid and never have made the step.
Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence : The step?
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget : Aw, Mom, I could perish! I could perish with shame. Last night, after all those hours of concentrated effort, I come home as pure as the driven snow.