Gidget Grows Up (1969 TV Movie)

Karen Valentine: 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!

• Russ Lawrence : What do you hear from Moondoggie?

  Gidget Lawrence : Well, when last heard from, he was correlating his research on the sex habits of the Eskimos.

• Gidget Lawrence : You pursue happiness your way, Minnie, and I'll pursue it mine.