From the article.
“Tony Curtis said that he was inspired to join the navy after watching Cary Grant in Destination Tokyo. Years later he’d be cast as Grant’s second in command in another sub picture, Blake Edwards’ Operation Petticoat (1959), which Basinger describes as a “feminized” version of Destination Tokyo, right down to the boat going into combat painted pink.”
Curtis also claimed that he developed the Cary Grant accent he used in Some Like It Hot from watching the same movie several times when he was serving aboard a sub tender, along with his ship mate, Larry Storch.