Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.

James Darren
as Moondoggie (Jeffrey Matthews)

Cindy Carol
as Frances "Gidget" Lawrence

Jessie Royce Landis
as Albertina Blythe

Cesare Danova
as Paolo Cellini

Danielle De Metz
as Daniela

Joby Baker
as Judge

Trudi Ames
as Libby Bennett

Noreen Corcoran
as Lucy McDougall

Peter Brooks
as Clay Anderson

Lisa Gastoni
as Signora Cellini
Wuchak
Cindy Carol is the best of the three Gidgets, plus several Rome attractions RELEASED IN 1963 and directed by Paul Wendkos, “Gidget goes to Rome” chronicles events when Gidget (Cindy Carol) visits Rome with two girlfriends along with Moondoggie (James Darren) and two of his buds, but the group has...