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.” ...

There are very few manufacturers of travel trailers that manage to disperse their units worldwide. One such crew was Gidget, an Australian-born brand that made it all the way to America and then ...

She also worked on several network soap operas as well as primetime series like 'The Loretta Young Show,' 'Ben Casey' and 'The Virginian.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Gabrielle Upton, who wrote the ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --James Darren, best known for a wide range of television shows and movies from Gidget to T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film "Gidget," died Monday at 88. Darren died in ...

(CNN) — James Darren, an actor, director and singer who had his breakout role of Moondoggie in the 1959 movie “Gidget,” died Monday at age 88, Variety reported. The entertainer died at Cedars-Sinai ...

P-Valley is the show that has captivated the summer. The critically-acclaimed STARZ series follows the ins and outs of those who work The Pynk, a popular strip club in Mississippi. One of the core ...

The 18-year-old surfer girl with the sun-bleached hair is breathing heavily and turning bright red as she approaches her idol, a diminutive grandmother who is signing books after a lecture on surfing ...

I can’t imagine growing up in the ’50s, certainly not as myself or any degree of myself that I am now. My strongest sense of the ‘50s comes from Betty Friedan and feminist critiques of the era. And ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MH says this new batch if Gidget will be a musical comedy (of course) and Cyrus will be in the ...

James Darren, Gidget teen idol actor who rose to fame in the 1950s, has died at 88, according to Nancy Sinatra, who counted him among her closest friends. “One of my dearest, closest friends in all ...