Sandra Dee credited as playing...
Francie Lawrence aka Gidget
- Moondoggie: Don't you find Kahuna to be a little on the lazy side?
- Gidget: Love makes room for fault.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?"
- 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?
- Russell Lawrence: It's too much money.
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: Oh, Daddy, I'd work like a slave for it. Please?
- Francie Lawrence aka Gidget: This surfboard is a gilt-edge guarantee for a summer of sheer happiness!
- 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.