Larue Wilson is a character introuced in the 1965 sitcom version of Gidget, where she was played by Lynette Winter. Larue is first mentioned in Frederick Kohner's 1957 novel Gidget, the Litte Girl with Big Ideas. In that novel she is a fairly minor chracter, and is said to be one year older than Gidget The best friend of Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field), she more often than not gets caught up in Gidget's schemes and other misadventures. In some ways, Larue is presented as a foil to Gidget personality-wise. She often joins her on her trips to the beach, but is fair-skinned and thus hardly seen there without being covered up and wearing a floppy hat to protect her from the sun. Some of Gidget's friends see Larue as uncool (like Dolly in the episode "My Ever Faithful Friend," who makes snide comments about her), but she generally is depicted as fitting in with most of them regardless. And of course, she and Gidget are usually inseparable.