Gidget
"Gidget" began as the nickname for Kathy Kohner of Brentwood, California, whose lightly fictionalized life as a teenage surfing neophyte at Malibu in the mid-1950s became a durable pop culture phenomenon—also known as Gidget—branching into books, movies, comics, television, and theater. "It was Gidget," Los Angeles magazine noted in 1994, "along with the Beach Boys, who gave surfing its most memor...
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Meeting Kahuna, from 'Gidget' (1959)Subscribe to view
Kathy Kohner, Malibu, 1956. Photo: Kohner collectionSubscribe to view
Gidget movie poster, 1959Subscribe to view
Sally Field as Gidget, 1965Subscribe to view
Gidget, first edition, 1957Subscribe to view
Kathy and Frederick Kohner, 1957Subscribe to view
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Meeting Kahuna, from 'Gidget' (1959)
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Kathy Kohner, Malibu, 1956. Photo: Kohner collection
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Gidget movie poster, 1959
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Sally Field as Gidget, 1965
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Gidget, first edition, 1957
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Kathy and Frederick Kohner, 1957