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Gidget Grows Up (1969)

Karen Valentine: Gidget Lawrence

Gidget Grows Up

Karen Valentine credited as playing...

Gidget Lawrence

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  • [first lines]
  • Gidget Lawrence: Well, there it is. The United Nations. One of humanities nobelist achievements. And here am I, Gidget Lawrence. Currently one of humanities most miserable misfits.
  • Gidget Lawrence: After two psyched out years as an exchange student, first in Italy and then in France, little ole prodigal me, returns to California - where I belong, to the people I belong to - like my dad, and the surfing hot shots and wahinis.
  • Gidget Lawrence: I could never be a fatalists. You know, the "Que será, será" bit.
  • Gidget Lawrence: [voice over] Jeff wanted us to do something different, memorable. I'd have settled for just sitting quietly, looking at him.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Did you get my letters?
  • Moondoggie Griffith: You bet your Crêpes Suzettes, I got 'em. They were so racy, I let my subscription to Playboy expire.
  • Gidget Lawrence: He served me my hamburger and French fries as if they were pheasant under glass.
  • Bibi Crosby: You're very small!
  • Gidget Lawrence: I try harder!
  • Minnie Chan: Hi, I'm Minerva Chan. Everyone calls me Minnie.
  • Gidget Lawrence: I'm Francis Lawrence. Everyone calls me Gidget.
  • Gidget Lawrence: You speak very good English.
  • Minnie Chan: Why not? I'm from Reading, Pennsylvania.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Oh? I thought you you were Chinese?
  • Minnie Chan: I am Chinese - American style.
  • Minnie Chan: I'm kinda scared.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Me too.
  • Minnie Chan: Glad to hear it. Two of the same opinion can conquer a city.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Confucius.
  • Minnie Chan: Fortune cookie! My dad has a factory in Reading that makes fortune cookies.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Really?
  • Minnie Chan: One jokes only when one is most serious.
  • Gidget Lawrence: This isn't an apartment, it's a shrine.
  • Louis B. Latimer: That's true. I'm not looking for a tenant, but a keeper of the flame.
  • Gidget Lawrence: What a privilege! A sacred trust.
  • Louis B. Latimer: The rent is 185 a month.
  • Gidget Lawrence: [voice over] At the United Nations, Bibi is really laying it on us. A piece of lint on your jacket and you feel like Benedict Arnold.
  • [Bibi brushes lint off of Gidget's breast]
  • Gidget Lawrence: A skirt, half a millimeter too short and it's an international incident.
  • Alex MacLaughlin: Where did you two meet?
  • Katrina Lund: At the Air Force Base in Greenland.
  • Moondoggie Griffith: Katrina and some other girls flew up to entertain us troops.
  • Katrina Lund: Those poor boys. So hungry!
  • Gidget Lawrence: Hungry?
  • Katrina Lund: Ya, for entertainment.
  • Gidget Lawrence: While your busy rubbing noses with the Eskimos, Alex is helping people learn how to grow their own food so their children don't starve to death!
  • Gidget Lawrence: The Captain isn't interested in anything, except his cognac.
  • Gidget Lawrence: I'm sorry. What a gooney bird! A knight rescues a damsel in distress and all she does is rave about the dragon.
  • Gidget Lawrence: It's hopeless. My subconscious has a trickier defense system than Fort Knox. I better go.
  • Gidget Lawrence: [voice over] Abdul swept down on a cute little guide from Iraq. She had no problem at all adjusting to Abdul's oil wells or being number 12 in that happy harem.
  • Gidget Lawrence: No, I'm not a little girl!
  • Russ Lawrence: English, huh?
  • Gidget Lawrence: Australian. But, he studied in England and then in the United States.
  • Russ Lawrence: Seems like a nice fellow.
  • Gidget Lawrence: Oh, Alex is dinkum! - It's Australian for tops!

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