Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Kahoona (sometimes the Great Kahoona) is a character created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas.As "Kahuna", the character appears in the 1959 film Gidget and in some of the television work involving the Gidget character.
Gidget lies and tells Moondoggie that it is Kahuna that she wants to make jealous, and they have a romantic evening at the luau. Eventually, Moondoggie says something that upsets Gidget and, as she flees the luau, she runs into Kahuna and agrees to take him to a nearby beach house. Alone with Kahuna, Gidget tries to make Kahuna take her ...
Gidget is an American sitcom television series by Screen Gems about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965, to April 21, 1966. Reruns were aired ...
The term was used in the 1959 film Gidget, in which "The Big Kahuna", played by Cliff Robertson (Martin Milner in the TV episode), was the leader of a group of surfers. The figure of the Big Kahuna became commonplace in Beach party films of the 1960s, such as Beach Blanket Bingo, in which the Big Kahuna was the best
James Darren, the teen idol who famously played dreamy surfer Moondoggie in the "Gidget" films of the 1950s and 1960s and segued into roles behind the camera, has died. He was 88. Darren died ...
Actor and former teen idol James Darren, best known for his role in the "Gidget" franchise, has died, according to reports.He was 88. Darren reportedly died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ...
Darren was the only Gidget cast member who appeared in both its sequels, 1961's Gidget Goes Hawaiian and 1963's Gidget Goes to Rome. Dee was replaced by Deborah Walley in the second film and Cindy ...
Gidget "The Great Kahuna" Story by : Frederick Kohner Teleplay by : Albert Mannheimer: ABC Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. "Opie Joins the Marines" Aaron Ruben CBS 1967 : The Jackie Gleason Show "Movies Are Better than Ever" Marvin Marx, Walter Stone and Rod Parker: CBS: Get Smart "Bronzefinger" Lila Garrett & Bernie Kahn: NBC "Where-What-Who Am I?"