Movie · 1959
Operation Petticoat
“20,000 laughs under the sea!”
Released 5 December 1959 124 min Comedy / War / Romance More from 1959 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
FR·01
How old were they?
Cary Grant
as Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman
Robert F. Simon
as Captain J.B. Henderson
George Dunn
as Prophet
Clarence Lung
as Sergeant Ramon Gillardo
Dick Crockett
as Petty Officer Harmon
Virginia Gregg
as Major Edna Heywood
Robert Gist
as Lieutenant Watson
Frankie Darro
as Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Dooley
Alan Dexter
as Navy Chief (uncredited)
Paul Frees
as Colonel in Jeep on Cebu (voice) (uncredited)
James Lanphier
as Daly (uncredited)
Gene Evans
as Chief Molumphry
Alan Scott
as Chief of Demolition (uncredited)
Dina Merrill
as 2nd Lieutenant Barbara Duran
William Bryant
as Crewman (uncredited)
Tony Curtis
as Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
Marion Ross
as 2nd Lieutenant Colfax
Dick Sargent
as Ensign Stovall (as Richard Sargent)
Gavin MacLeod
as Yeoman Ernest Hunkle
Madlyn Rhue
as 2nd Lieutenant Reid
Joan O'Brien
as 2nd Lieutenant Dolores Crandall
FR·02
The numbers
32years between the oldest and youngest billed
55Cary Grant — oldest on the call sheet
23Joan O'Brien — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast