Joan O’Brien death: Operation Petticoat and It Happened at the World’s Fair actor dies aged 89

Joan O'Brien at London Airport on April 27, 1962 - (George Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Joan O’Brien, the actor who starred in a string of film and television hits throughout the 1950s and 1960s, has died. She was 89.

O’Brien was perhaps best known for her work in the Blake Edwards submarine comedy Operation Petticoat, in which she starred opposite Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.