Gidget Goes to Rome

Just landed in Rome, James Darren as Jeff, (a.k.a. Moondoggie), with Peter Brooks and Joby Baker, greeting Jessie Royce Landis, his aunt and their chaperone, and the gals (Cindy Carol as Gidget, with Trudi Ames and Noreen Corcoran) playing along, in Gidget Goes To Rome, 1963.

Starting in Malibu, Cindy Carol introduced in the title role (the 3rd, after Sandra Dee and Deborah Walley), with girlfriends Libby and Lucy (Trudi Ames, Noreen Corcoran), then James Darren as Jeff (a.k.a. “Moondoggie”), with pals Joby Baker and Peter Brooks, in Gidget Goes To Rome, 1963.

On location in Rome, James Darren as Jeff (whom she still calls “Moondoggie”) and Cindy Carol (title character), on their vacation from California, musing about the eternal city with an original song by George David Weiss and Al Kasha, in Columbia’s Gidget Goes To Rome, 1963.