The Girls of Pleasure Island poster

Movie · 1953

The Girls of Pleasure Island

“It's "Operation Sarong"”

Released 1 April 1953 95 min Drama / Comedy / Romance More from 1953 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Philip Ober
as Col. Reade
51
Elsa Lanchester
as Thelma
50
Leo Genn
as Roger Halyard
47
Gene Barry
as Capt. Beaton
33
Don Taylor
as Lt. Jimmy Gilmartin
32
Earl Holliman
as Marine (uncredited)
24
Joan Elan
as Violet Halyard
23
Dorothy Bromiley
as Gloria Halyard
22
Peter Baldwin
as Henry Smith
22
Audrey Dalton
as Hester Halyard
19
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
32years between the oldest and youngest billed
51Philip Ober — oldest on the call sheet
19Audrey Dalton — youngest billed
32average age of the credited cast
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