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imkeepinit · 1 year ago
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Movie poster by Constantin Belinsky for the 1960 French release of the Universal International feature Operation Jupons. Constantin Belinsky (1904-1999) moved to Paris from his native Ukraine in 1925 and began a career as a film poster designer in 1930. He was a prolific designer, creating thousands of poster designs over a career spanning more than forty years, each featuring his unmistakably style of bold, beautiful and sumptuously colored designs. He is responsible for some of the most glorious French movie posters. (Orson & Welles)
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signalwatch · 1 year ago
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Classic Comedy Watch: Operation Petticoat (1959) Watched:  01/27/2024 Format: Prime Viewing:  First Director:  Blake Edwards Selection:  Me, by rec So, a colleague had recommended this one, and forewarned me that it is a product of it's time, and I could not agree more.   This is a movie with an odd framing device - a US Navy Admiral returning to the submarine he skippered during the war on the morning the boat is set to head to the boneyard.  He sits down and reads his Captain's log from cover to cover in his former bunk. By 1959 two things were apparently true:   1) the US was ready to do light, sexy comedies about the war, including starting out with making Pearl Harbor a wacky incident that happened 2) the role of women in film - especially light comedies - had changed a lot, with the "can do" spirit of women in the war or even noir There is not room in this post to discuss the rapid swing of women in pictures of the 1950's from tough-women-on-the-homefront to "don't let those daffy women near machinery.  That's for MEN." that I assume reflects the culture of the time.  But it's kind of a thing, and for as fast as it happened, it took a lot longer to eke our way back out.   This movie is the Admiral's (Cary Grant) recollections of the submarine crew's post Pearl Harbor response, lifting the boat and getting it semi-seaworthy again thanks to shenanigans on the part of a new Lieutenant (Tony Curtis), a streetwise fast talker who has joined the navy for the uniform and social ladder climbing opportunities. It's got a hint of Sgt. Bilko (which pre-dates the film) as some of the best gags are about Tony Curtis finding the materials needed.  Good stuff.  But the main feature of the film is when the sub stops off at an island and finds they have to evacuate 6 female nurses.  Who are, of course, mostly stacked.  And then it's a lot of "boys will be boys" and "women don't belong on a boat!" humor that you either are going to have to get settled in with or you're going to want to choke a boat load of US servicemen.   The humor is a brand of post-screwball wackiness that would continue to expand into the 1960's and be killed off by 1970s film while being embraced by 1970's TV, in its way.  And some bits are really good.  I did want to tell the editor to please leave Cary Grant alone and let him have his moments after something wacky happened, because that's where you get the laugh doubled down (see Grant in Bringing Up Baby).  There's not even exactly double-entendres but in an era that was sanitizing comedy, this must have felt pretty racy (you see a girdle and a bra!).   Fun bit of casting - look for Marion "Mrs. Cunningham" Ross as one of the nurses.  And, fun fact:  there was a 1977 TV show that basically remade the movie starring John Astin in the Cary Grant role and had a very young Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the nurses.  I have absolutely no idea how this premise was carried off for two seasons of network TV.   Anyway, it's a fascinating time capsule talking to the generation who was in the war now that they bought suburban houses as much as it's a comedy you can still put on and get most of the jokes.   https://ift.tt/74jsZ0Y via The Signal Watch https://ift.tt/5SVm8JY January 29, 2024 at 09:25PM
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citizenscreen · 1 month ago
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Cary Grant, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, and Tony Curtis during filming of OPERATION PETTICOAT, directed by Blake Edwards and released in December 1959.
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haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 7 months ago
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angrylovelyheart · 2 months ago
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Cary Grant and Tony Curtis during filming of Operation Petticoat, 1959 
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cafenostalgique · 1 month ago
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My ultimate film watchlist (1950s)
1930s-1940s | 1960s-1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s
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I’m particularly in love with film, fashion, and the beauty of the 1950s. I hope that also goes to say that I don’t agree with the negative politics surrounding the decade. As stated in part one, holiday films may appear on multiple lists, as I love holidays and want to watch major films during those times of year as well. Please let me know if I’m ever missing any cult classics as well! I’m always open to add on :)
watched | loved | wouldn’t watch again | holiday
1950
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Cinderella
Crisis
Harvey
In a Lonely Place
The Asphalt Jungle
Sunset Boulevard
1951
A Christmas Carol
Alice in Wonderland
An American in Paris
A Place in the Sun
A Streetcar Named Desire
People Will Talk
Strangers on a Train
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Thing from Another World
1952
High Noon
Monkey Business
Room for One More
Singin’ in the Rain 
The Quiet Man
1953
Dream Wife
From Here to Eternity
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Peter Pan
Roman Holiday
The Big Heat
Stalag 17
The War of the Worlds
1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dial M for Murder
Godzilla
Rear Window
Sabrina
White Christmas
1955
East of Eden
Guys and Dolls
Lady and the Tramp
Marty
Rebel Without a Cause
The Seven Year Itch
The Trouble with Harry
To Catch A Thief
1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Killing
The King and I
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Searchers
The Ten Commandments
1957
12 Angry Men
An Affair to Remember
Kiss Them for Me
Paths of Glory
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Pride and the Passion
The Seventh Seal
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Houseboat
Indiscreet
Touch of Evil 
Vertigo
1959
Anatomy of a Murder
North by Northwest
Operation Petticoat
Sleeping Beauty
Some Like It Hot
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hwdownandout · 1 month ago
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Tony Curtis photographed for Operation Petticoat (1959).
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gatutor · 9 months ago
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Cary Grant-Arthur O´Connell-Virginia Gregg "Operación Pacífico" (Operation Petticoat) 1959, de Blake Edwards.
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sanshofox · 11 months ago
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Can you recommend your favorite comedies/romcoms from the 50s and 60s? I'd love to watch more but I have trouble finding more than the Classics™️ (as decided by? websites in general I guess?)
Yours, mine and ours (1968)
A touch of mink (1962)
Send me no flowers (1964)
Pillow talk (1959)
Lover come back (1961)
Move over darling (1963)
The thrill of it all (1963)
Operation petticoat (1959)
Houseboat (1958)
Cinderella story (sophia loren, 1967, this one is hard to find)
it started in naples (1960)
Indiscreet (1958)
Blondes preferred (1953)
We’re no angels (1955)
Teacher‘s pet (1958)
Carry-on movies in general (throughout the 50s,60s and 70s)
Father of the bride (1951)
The countess from hong kong (1967)
Roman holiday (1953)
Sabrina (1954, tbh I prefer the 90s version more though)
Charade (1963)
My fair lady (1964)
Funny girl (1968)
Louis de funès movies in general (50s, 60s, 70s)
Strange bedfellows (1965)
Those are my favs so far. I still have a few movies left to watch with i.e. katherine hepburn, spencer tracy and shirley maclaine and others in the main cast, but there aren’t many left on my list. Additionally germany didn’t localize every movie back then, mostly those that were already successful in their home country and would promise guaranteed success in german cinema, so there‘s the chance that most of the movies I named are listed as classics. Though I do hope I could name a few that are new to you. :D
I also have german fav movies from the 50s and 60s but I dunno the region you’re from, so I listed only those that have english as main language or have subtitles.
If there’s someone that would like to contribute their fav in the comments please do so.
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overlookedwwiimedia · 1 year ago
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Operation Petticoat (1959)
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Basic Story: Lieutenant Commander Sherman remembers his misadventures aboard the USS Sea Dragon.
Fan Thoughts: Operation Petticoat is one of those World War II films from around the sixties that focused more on comedy and innuendo than drama.  While it is silly and a bit ridiculous at times, it’s a fun film with a fast pace as Lieutenant Commander Sherman (Cary Grant) tries to help his submarine the USS Sea Tiger through a comedy of errors on their way from the Philippines to Australia.  Assisting him Lieutenant Nick Holden (Tony Curtis), a former admirals aide who at first seems ill suited toeing onboard until he reveals he can scrounge just about anything to help repair the badly damaged Sea Tiger and Sherman makes him Supply Officer.  After stealing every part they can, the Sea Tiger begins limping toward Australia, engine one constantly gurgling and backfiring.  While on their journey the submarine and crew find themselves in increasingly absurd situations, however nearly all of them are loosely based on actual events: nurses were evacuated from Corregidor on the USS Spearfish, Filipino civilians were evacuated on the USS Narwhal, USS Bowfin torpedoed a bus, the Lieutenant Commander of the USS Skipjack sent a letter regarding the lack of toilet paper like the one in the film, and while obviously taken to a comedic level the pink paint was based on the USS Seadragon who had her top coat of paint burned off and fought in just the red undercoat, and the USS Harder had pink added to her grey top coat to aid camouflage at dawn and dusk.  While some of the jokes are a product of the time it was made, the film is still a successful comedy and an entertaining watch!
Warnings: mildly offensive jokes regarding women and native Filipinos
Available On: Apple TV, Vudu, Prime Video, Pluto TV
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beautifulactres · 2 years ago
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Cary Grant, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959)
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mongoose-king · 2 years ago
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Comfort Movie Tag
rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies and then tag 10 people
Tagged by @monstersandmaw
Sky High (2005)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Near Dark (1987)
Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular (2003)
Behaving Badly (2014)
Cars trilogy (2006, 2011, 2017)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
Father Goose (1964)
Hardcore Henry (2015)
Okay I put 11 (technically 13 bc theres a whole trilogy lol) bc I'm indecisive af 😅 but they're all such good movies,,,, oh, also like. Anything by Mel Brooks. OH and any Scooby Doo rlly lol
Tagging @sad--tree @scarletknightmare @simsparadise3 @riotparty @riot-control @queeniequeens @sushidynasty @toobusyoverthinking @bellarad @rradraptor
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bm2ab · 24 days ago
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Arrivals & Departures . 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986 . Archibald Alec Leach . Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; ) was an English and American actor. Known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.
Grant was born into an impoverished family in Bristol, where he had an unhappy childhood marked by the absence of his mother and his father's alcoholism. He became attracted to theatre at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the US. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.
Grant initially appeared in crime films and dramas, such as Blonde Venus (1932) and She Done Him Wrong (1933), but later gained renown for his performances in romantic screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), and The Philadelphia Story (1940). These pictures are frequently cited among the greatest comedy films of all time. Other well-known films in which he starred in this period were the adventure Gunga Din (1939), the dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), and the dramas Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), and None but the Lonely Heart (1944), the latter two for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Grant had a close working relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him in four films: Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North by Northwest (1959). For the suspense-dramas Suspicion and Notorious, Grant took on darker, morally ambiguous characters, both challenging Grant's screen persona and his acting abilities. Toward the end of his career he starred in the romantic films Indiscreet (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), That Touch of Mink (1962), and Charade (1963). He is remembered by critics for his unusually broad appeal as a handsome, suave actor who did not take himself too seriously, and in comedies was able to toy with his dignity without sacrificing it entirely.
Grant was married five times, three of them elopements with actresses Virginia Cherrill (1934–1935), Betsy Drake (1949–1962), and Dyan Cannon (1965–1968). He had daughter Jennifer Grant with Cannon. He retired from film acting in 1966 and pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé and sitting on the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He died of a stroke in 1986 at the age of 82
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citizenscreen · 11 months ago
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Tony Curtis and Cary Grant during production of OPERATION PETTICOAT (1959), directed by Blake Edwards
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eisbar777 · 5 months ago
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Operation Petticoat (1959) Trailer
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freemoviesociety · 9 months ago
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