James Darren Overview:

Actor, James Darren, was born James William Ercolani on Jun 8, 1936 in Philadelphia, PA. As of December 2023, James Darren was 87 years old.

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Jimmy Logan: How can you run from a dead person unless you're dead yourself?

Jimmy Logan: She was beautiful, even though she was dead.

Johnny Rico: So maybe I am gonna die. But Eddie, you've got even bigger troubles. You're gonna live.

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James Darren Facts
First wife Gloria Terlitzky was a childhood sweetheart. They had a child named Jimmy. Second wife Evy Norlund, Miss Denmark of 1958, gave him two sons, Christian and Anthony.
He was originally not given the Moondoggie character in Columbia Pictures' Gidget (1959) because the role required two songs to sing and Darren had not proven himself a capable enough singer. On his own, he cut a single with the studio's recording subsidiary, Colpix Records, which charted. Columbia changed its mind and gave him the role despite the fact that he couldn't surf and was a weak swimmer. He nevertheless became a huge teen idol and reprised the Moondoggie role in both Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), all with different Gidgets: Sandra Dee; Deborah Walley and Cindy Carol.
Introduced to talent agent 'Joyce Selznick' by a secretary at a Photography Shop on Broadway in New York City, called "Maurice Seymour of Hollywood." He was signed to Columbia Pictures in 1956 and given the name "James Darren" by the studio in honor of the Kaiser-Darrin sports car.
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