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Birth Name: Joan Marie O'Brien

Born: 14 February 1936 Died: 5 May 2025

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 4"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Malcolm Bernard Campbell


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Description: 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 nurse who gets in everyone's way because her, umm, "proportions" cause uncomfortable crowding in a small submarine. Because of her, Cary Grant becomes the first officer in the history of the U.S. Navy to sink an enemy truck! She again played a nurse in th ... (more)
Tags: Born 1936 (2), Female (1), American (1), Actress (1), Wagon Train (1), Sultry (1), Tv Actress (1), Died Aged 89 (1), Born February 14 (1), Tv Western (1), Born In MA (1), Died 2025 (1)
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3. Perry Mason (1957)
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4. Cheyenne (1955)
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2. The Alamo (1960)
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