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Operation Petticoat

film by Edwards [1959]

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In Blake Edwards: Early life and work
…hit with the military comedy Operation Petticoat (1959), which starred Cary Grant.
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television adaptation

In Jamie Lee Curtis: Acting career
…which was based on a 1959 film starring her father and Cary Grant. The show was canceled in 1978, and that year Jamie Lee Curtis made her big-screen debut, starring in John Carpenter’s Halloween. She played Laurie Strode, a shy studious babysitter terrorized by the seemingly unkillable Michael Myers. According…
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