As a teenager growing up in Malibu in the 1950s, Kathy Kohner liked to hang out with the surfing set. But she wasn’t content with just being an onlooker. “I was 16. I didn’t want to be the girl on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the original "Gidget" movie, in 1959, Hollywood churned out any number of sequels. "Gidget Grows Up." "Gidget Goes to Rome." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many Gidgets does it take to premiere a new Gidget movie? Maybe not as many as you'd find Elvises at an Elvis convention, but expect quite a few when Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story makes ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Hollywood released "Gidget" in 1959 it unleashed one of the first waves of mainstream attention and popularity for surfing in ...