The U. S. Navy will be allowing women to serve on submarines. The military used to feel that the confined space of a submarine was not an appropriate working environment. Apparently, that has changed. The real U.S. Navy submarine force will be quite similar to a 1959 movie about a pink submarine. Life imitates art.

I have watched the classic movie Operation Petticoat over 10 times. Tony Curtis & Cary Grant are submariners in a pink submarine, set during the beginning years of WWII. The sub was in the process of repair work & repainting. They didn't have enough primer of one color, they would have enough by mixing red primer and white primer, which makes PINK primer. Before the gray overcoat was put on they had to submerge, because of an enemy attack.

Lt. J.G. Holden (Tony Curtis) is the executive officer, who is a born con man. Whatever the captain & crew need to fix the boat, the executive officer finds a way. He honed his con man skills by being an admiral's aide, prior to his assignment aboard the submarine

The Japanese see the pink sub and they think it is a secret U.S. weapon. The U.S. Naval Intelligence think the enemy is purposely trying to deceive the U.S. Navy brass. They think the Japanese are trying to sneak their own pink submarine through the American blockade. Neither navy knows the truth. The U.S. & the Japanese both want to sink the PINK submarine.

During the hide and seek with the two Naval forces, the bizarre sub picks up several stranded FEMALE nurses. They were on a island that had been attacked & Lt. J.G. Nicholas Holden (Tony Curtis) couldn't leave them behind. Hilarity ensues when six female nurses cohabitate with the enemy (aka MEN.)

The U.S. Navy finds the Pink Sub and starts a depth charge barrage. Lt Cmdr. Sherman (Cary Grant) is the captain of the boat and gathers all of the U.S. Navy issued women's undergarments on his boat, he then orders his crew to place the collected unmentionables in the torpedo tube. One big flush later, the destroyer stops their attack. It works. A HAPPY ENDING!!!!!

TV TOY MEMORIES has an in-person autographed Tony Curtis 16 X 20 Giclee pictured as Lt Holden. A Giclee is special process used to print an image on canvas, which has been stretched on to a wooden frame. Click the link for more information on Giclee. 

If you wish to purchase the autographed Tony Curtis (Lt. J.G. Holden) Giclee, you can go to this link:
http://www.tvtoymemories.com/ODDS_ENDS_10.html

An image of the Giclee is shown below. The actual print is far nicer than this image.




INTRODUCTION VIDEO TRAILER FOR THE 1959 COMEDY- ADVENTURE MOVIE, OPERATION PETTICOAT.








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