Operation Petticoat
“20,000 laughs under the sea!”
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Genres
Comedy, War, Romance
Studio
Granart Company
Language
en
Status
Released
How Operation Petticoat performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$6.8M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$979K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman
Cary Grant
Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman
Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
Tony Curtis
Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
2nd Lieutenant Dolores Crandall
Joan O'Brien
2nd Lieutenant Dolores Crandall
2nd Lieutenant Barbara Duran
Dina Merrill
2nd Lieutenant Barbara Duran
Chief Molumphry
Gene Evans
Chief Molumphry
Ensign Stovall (as Richard Sargent)
Dick Sargent
Ensign Stovall (as Richard Sargent)
Major Edna Heywood
Virginia Gregg
Major Edna Heywood
Captain J.B. Henderson
Robert F. Simon
Captain J.B. Henderson
Lieutenant Watson
Robert Gist
Lieutenant Watson
Yeoman Ernest Hunkle
Gavin MacLeod
Yeoman Ernest Hunkle
Prophet
George Dunn
Prophet
Petty Officer Harmon
Dick Crockett
Petty Officer Harmon
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