Holden (Tony Curtis) brings aboard unexpected nurses (Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Virgina Gregg et al), perplexing Captain Sherman (Cary Grant), a key event in Blake Edwards' Operation Petticoat, 1959. watch
Academy Award-winner Elizabeth Taylor ("National Velvet," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") won an Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute who wants to go straight and settle down with the right man. Co-starring Oscar-nominee Laurence Harvey ("The Manchurian Candidate"), singer Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill ("Operation Petticoat") and Oscar-nominee Mildred Dunnock ("Death of a Salesman"). Produced by Academy Award-recipient Pandro S. Berman ("Ivanhoe," "Top Hat," "Father of the Bride"). watch
Who will be the next Mrs. Corbett? Will it be the chic designer? The Miss Montana Pageant hopeful? The headstrong lady across the hall? It's a big decision for any boy to make for his recently widowed dad! Like father, like son. You'll like 'em both when renowned child actor and future Oscar winner Ronny Howard portrays Eddie and Glenn Ford is his dad. Vincente Minnelli (Gigi) directs, using his flair for vivid colors and balancing the film's humor with the real sense of loss a family feels over a loved one's passing. Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens portray the prospects under Eddie's self-appointed scrutiny. The amiable Courtship continued years later with a same-titled TV series starring Bill Bixby. watch
