Movies such as Gidget (1959), filmed on Malibu???s Surfrider Beach and Leo Carrillo State Park (see above), sparked a flood of interest and instigated the genre known as beach party films (1963???s Beach Party was also filmed in Malibu), as well as the surf music of Dick Dale, the Beach Boys (formed in nearby Hawthorne, LA, in 1961) and others.