Betsy Drake

Betsy Drake (born September 11, 1923) is a French-born American actress and writer. She was the third wife of actor Cary Grant.

Drake, the eldest child of two American expatriates, was born in Paris in 1923. Although her grandfather, Tracy Drake, had built the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL, the Drakes lost their money in the 1929 stock market crash when Betsy was five years old. As a result Betsy was forced to return to the United States, on the ship SS Ile de France, with her parents, her brothers and a nanny. She grew up variously in Chicago, Illinois; Westport, Connecticut; Washington D.C, Virginia, North Carolina and New York, NY.

Betsy went to twelve different schools, both private and public, before concentrating on theatre and acting at junior college in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.. She began looking for work as an actress in New York, supporting herself by working as a Conover model. She met the playwright Horton Foote who offered her a job as understudy in his play Only the Heart which enabled her to join Actor's Equity and thus became a professional actress.

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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat - Watch Operation Petticoat Streaming Movie Online.Cary Grant is cast as the commander of the Sea Tiger, a sub held together by a lick and a promise. Tony Curtis is cast as Lt Lop Holden. He was assigned sea duty as a punishment, and is very outside of his element. Since the country is at war, supplies are very scarce, and Holden discovers that he does have a talent in being a thief. If they can’t fetch a requisition filled, Mr. Holden can score it. This crew has one catastrophe after another, and then they bag stuck with team of nurses that are stranded. This is a hilarious movie that will fabricate you laugh out loud. The cast is respectable, and not impartial the talent of Grant and Curtis, but all the supporting players.

Cary Grant is the Commander of the Sea Tiger, a submarine with more problems than crew members.
His troubles launch when the sub sinks before even leaving the harbor during a Japanese raid. Commander Sherman (Grant) and his men inaugurate working to repair and bring up their beloved sub despite the fact that their requisition orders rarely are filled.

Due to the fact that some of his men were reassigned to other duties after the raid, Sherman is granted some “replacement’s”–enter Lt. Nicholas Holden (Tony Curtis) .

Holden is in the Navy not for the purpose of country but for the uniform so he can sign his rich girlfriend encourage home. Since he is no longer winning the rumba championships with the Admiral’s wife he must resolve into a role on the Sea Tiger–scavenging for items to repair the sub.
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With novel and inventive ways of obtaining supplies (taking the wall from headquarters and stealing supplies from beneath the noses of MP’s) the Sea Tiger once again becomes sea worthy–barely.

None of the scavenging pain Crop Holden causes Commander Sherman can even compare to the current passengers he brings aboard: a crew of female doctors, pregnant women and goats.

Cary Grant is charming as ever and deals with the many, many problems and situations thrown at him in such droll ways. Tony Curtis is equally charming and lends very mighty to this film.The supporting cast can be likened to the “Down Periscope” crew of 1959. Each character brings something unusual and fresh to the storyline.

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