Joan O'Brien: Joan O'Brien. Actress: Operation Petticoat. Joan O'Brien began her show-biz career while she was in high school, on a local TV music show in California with Tennessee Ernie Ford. Soon, she was a successful singer, and made the jump to acting. In about half the films she ever made, it appeared that Joan played a nurse. Perhaps her most memorable appearance was in Blake Edwards' Operation Petticoat (1959), as the...
Known For: Operation Petticoat (Lt. Dolores Crandall RN), The Alamo (Mrs. Sue Dickinson), It Happened at the World's Fair (Diane Warren), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Chris Brinel)