Joan O'Brien

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Birth Name: Joan Marie O'Brien

Age: 88, born 14 February 1936

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 4"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Lt. Col. Malcolm Bernard Campbell

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Elvis Presley's leading ladies (52 items)
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1936 (12 items)
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Directed by Blake Edwards (541 items)
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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), Tv Western (1)

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