The Real Gidget story Featured
By Carrie Bell Kathy Kohner Zuckerman was the inspiration behind the Hollywood character as the real-life Gidget surfing in Malibu, Calif. “It’s bitchin.” Not exactly the words one expects to hear come out of an 85-year-old woman’s mouth to sum up the opposites-attract origin story of her six decades-long marriage. But then again, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman isn’t your average little old lady. Although she is definitely little, rather famously so, as Zuckerman is Gidget. Yes, that Gidget. The one played by Sandra Dee in a series of beach-party movies starting in 1959 and by future Oscar winner, then-unknown Sally Field…
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