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Operation Petticoat was a huge box office hit, earning over $9.3 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada, [1] which made it the third highest-grossing film of 1959, the highest-domestic-grossing comedy of all-time up to that point, [13] as well as the most financially successful film of Cary Grant's career.
Operation Petticoat is an American sitcom that was based on the 1959 film by the same name. It was broadcast on ABC for two seasons, from September 17, 1977, until October 16, 1978. The first season starred John Astin as the skipper of the submarine, as well as Jamie Lee Curtis , the daughter of Tony Curtis , who had starred in the 1959 film.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, she appeared in some 20 films, including Operation Petticoat (1959); The Ladies Man (1961); A Majority of One (1961); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963); Kenner (1969); and Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). Rhue guest-starred in dozens of television series, beginning with Cheyenne (1955).
From 1977 to 1979, Varney was cast as Seaman "Doom & Gloom" Broom in the television version of Operation Petticoat. Just prior to his stint as Ernest, he was a cast member on the notorious television flop Pink Lady and Jeff. In 1978, Varney played Milo Skinner on the TV show Alice.
Astin played submarine commander Matthew Sherman on the 1970s television series Operation Petticoat. He also made several appearances in the first two seasons of the popular mystery series Murder, She Wrote, as scheming real estate developer (and finally Sheriff) Harry Pierce, who ends up as the murderer in his last episode.
'Petticoat Junction' cast. Writer and producer Paul Henning was the brain behind three hit TV shows: Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. The third show was a hit on CBS ...