i love watch these film of the 1950 which say so much . well and they say so much about the 1950 . what a ridiculous bunch of substantively nothing some of these film be . the plot be so thin a be the woman . i think when one look at these film . really look at them . one can see why there have to be a feminist movement . all the clichés apply . the woman surely do not seem to have a brain in their head . in this film gidget friend simply do not know what on earth will happen to poor gidget if she doesn not have a successful summer which mean get a steady boyfriend . she can not even return to school if that doesn not happen . gidget and well and she just ruminates and hand wring wonder why oh why she just do not have the right stuff . maybe there be something wrong with her that she simply do not care about men . she such a cutsey tomboy . uh oh . nope and not to worry and gay an not an issue . gay be an impossibility in that era and not even elude to even though one of her friend seem ever so lesbian to me . worry not though and her friend who help her dress for the loowow and listens while gidget worry about men but say nothing and be pin and to a guy of course . gidget mother reassuringly stand by and tell her everything be aok and she will know that man when she meet him . whew and i be so worried . we know and all well that end well and gidget do finally get a man and of course remain virginal to boot . she realize there be nothing wrong with her at all . she simply do not meet the right one . thank god . she save . how could this ever so bleached blond not meet anyone with those platinum look and pancake makeup whiter than white skin . one could never take her for a black woman that for sure . of course in the 50 there be no black right . do anyone of that era really have hair and skin that color . if one care to notice her eyebrow be brown . no one notice a blond and white especially woman be what america in the 50 want everyone to be . what be that character all about . if one expect a discussion of war and peace and dickens and steinbeck or even louisa may alcott forget it . how about a discussion of james baldwin and alan ginsberg or lenny bruce . no way . will she talk about jim crow law in the south and the plessy v. fergusson decision or american foreign policy post wwii . i do not think so . gidget be about worry though . it be worry about learn how to surf and attend loowows in the right clothes and hunky guy and gidget lack of attraction to men err lack of attraction to the right man . serious stuff . perhaps and the film be about innocence . innocence though without some reality be simply trash . that be what the gidget film be . they be pure and simply ridiculous trash . sandra dee have talent however a movie such a imitation of life and a summer place attest . it too bad her talent be waste on that genre of film . obviously those film make money and that be what gidget be all about . oh well and i will admit watch those film be like take a drink . it utter escape into a life of pure fantasy and into the innocent life of a 1950 that really never be all that innocent if one be black and female and disable or and certainly and heaven forbid homosexual . nope gidget be surely not reality . for a moment and though and when i watch it and i step away from the sadness and vicissitude of life a it be .