Operation Petticoat

…hit with the military comedy Operation Petticoat (1959), which starred Cary Grant.

…such films as Blake Edwards’s Operation Petticoat (1959), Robert Mulligan’s The Great Imposter (1961), and Richard Quine’s Sex and the Single Girl (1964).

…which was based on a 1959 film starring her father and Cary Grant. The show was canceled in 1978, and that year she made her big-screen debut, starring in John Carpenter’s Halloween. She played Laurie Strode, a shy studious babysitter terrorized by the seemingly unkillable Michael Myers. According to reports,…