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Sandra Dee, James Darren, and Cliff Robertson in Gidget (1959)

James Darren: Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie

Gidget

James Darren credited as playing...

Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie

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Quotes15

  • Moondoggie: Don't you find Kahuna to be a little on the lazy side?
  • Gidget: Love makes room for fault.
  • 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.
  • Moondoggie: Go back to Mama and Run don't Walk!
  • 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.
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: This wasn't my idea. I came as a favor to my dad. How was I to guess some drip cello student would turn out to be you?
  • 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.
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Cut it out, will you? I'm no cruddy sponger.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Lover Boy! A lady wrestler wouldn't be safe with that octopus, let alone a babe in arms like you.
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: [singing] There's no such thing as, The next best thing to love, No substitute, Or facsimile thereof, How can we disregard it? How can we not take heed? Just like the inner, Craves for the dinner, Love is a human need...
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: Bringing a broad to a place like this, that's one thing, but the Gidget?
  • 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.
  • Burt Vail aka The Big Kahuna: The party's over, now blow.
  • Jeffrey Matthews aka Moondoggie: I'll blow when I'm ready.

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