LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88.
Beloved original Gidget actress Sandra Dee was born Alexandra Zuck on April 23, 1942, in Bayonne, New Jersey. Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee met on a movie set in Italy in the summer of 1960 and wed ...
Darren played alongside Sandra Dee in “Gidget” and was part of the surfing culture craze of the 1960s. He appeared in the two “Gidget” movie sequels in the early 1960s. Moret told the ...
James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in ...