In Popular Culture
- 1933: Hollywood B-movie Air Hostess portrays a love story about a stewardess (Evalyn Knapp) and a pilot (James Murray).
- 1947: The Vicki Barr: Flight Stewardess book series, in which Vicki's career "brings her glamorous friends, exciting adventures, loyal roommates and dates with a hand some young pilot and an up-and-coming reporter", sells well in the USA.
- 1951: Hollywood production Three Guys Named Mike, tells the story of stewardess Marcy (Jane Wyman) who has to choose between three admirers and becomes an advertising icon.
- 1959: in the German romantic comedy An Angel On Wheels, Romy Schneider plays the guardian angel of a racing car driver who disguises herself as an air hostess.
- 1965: in the US comedy Boeing Boeing, Tony Curtis plays an American journalist in Paris who is simultaneously engaged to three different stewardesses.
- 1967: best selling memoir Coffee, Tea or Me?, by Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones recounts the romantic adventures of two stewardesses.
- 1996: Australian comedian Caroline Reid creates the character "Pam Ann" to satirise the stereotypical aspects of the job of the air stewardess.
- 1997: Seventies flim star Pam Grier plays a flight attendant in Quentin Tarantino's gangster film Jackie Brown.
- 2003: British television series Mile High features a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious low-cost carrier "Fresh!". In the film View from the Top, Gwyneth Paltrow plays an ambitious flight attendant trying to escape her small-town existence.
- 2004: the hit single Air Hostess by Busted reaches No. 2 in the UK singles chart.
- 2007: British pop/bubblegum dance group Scooch, comes 22nd in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song Flying the Flag (For You), featuring flight attendants and including a liberal amount of sexual innuendo.
- 2011: the American period television series Pan Am, starring Christina Ricci, features pilots and flight attendants working in the 1960s.
- 2012: Transit Girl, a film by former flight attendant Miriam Thiel, premiers at the Berlin Film Festival.
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