Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

Double Feature with classic GIDGET (1959)
One ticket purchase for both films.

SCHEDULE:

2:00PM - ACCIDENTAL ICON screening*
3:00PM - Q&A and Book Signing
4:30PM - GIDGET screening

“ACCIDENTAL ICON: THE REAL GIDGET STORY,” a new one-hour
documentary narrated by Jorja Fox (“CSI”) and produced by Brian L. Gillogly and Robert Masters, explores the untold story of the real “Gidget,” Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, and how her account of surfing Malibu in the mid-50’s became the basis for a best-selling novel by her father Frederick Kohner and an enduring Hollywood movie/TV franchise. A half century later, “Gidget” is celebrated as a slice of Americana, with considerable impact on popular culture and the sport of surfing.

Surf legends and present-day “surfer girls” set the stage and take the Gidget story full circle. Prominent actors, writers and directors, many of whom brought Gidget to the big and small screen, provide behind-the-scenes perspectives.

Together with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, they offer an unvarnished account of a young girl coming of age amongst the waves at Malibu’s fabled Surfrider Beach—and how an idealized vision of that girl became an American icon.

Followed by Q&A and book signing