Gidget Goes Hawaiian is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Deborah Walley and James Darren in a sequel to the 1959 Sandra Dee "beach movie" vehicle Gidget. The sequel expands the archetypal high school teen surfer girl's romance with her college sweetheart Moondoggie. The film is the second of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos. The screenplay was written by Ruth Brooks Flippen based on characters created by Frederick Kohner.



