page_title: Flight attendant
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Flight attendant / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Pub sign in Tollerton. A figure-head type sign made of glass fibre for the Air Hostess pub, complete with 1960s uniform and hair style. The Air Hostess first opened in December 1966 when two real air hostesses were flown up from Birmingham Airport to add a touch of glamour to the occasion. The pub's female bar staff used to wear air hostess uniforms and it still retains the original 60s style.
context_page_description: A flight attendant, also known as steward/stewardess or air host/air hostess, is a member of the aircrew aboard commercial flights, many business jets and some government aircraft. Collectively called cabin crew, flight attendants are primarily responsible for passenger safety and comfort.
context_section_description: 1933: Air Hostess portrays a love story about a flight attendant (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 US.
  1950: In Batman #62 (December/January), it is revealed that Catwoman is an amnesiac flight attendant who had turned to crime after suffering a prior blow to the head during a plane crash she survived. The name of the airline she worked for was Speed Airlines.
  1951: Three Guys Named Mike is a film about flight attendant Marcy (Jane Wyman) who has to choose between three admirers and becomes an advertising icon.
  1955: Out of the Clouds, British drama film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty and James Robertson Justice. An Ealing Studios production, the film is composed of small stories dealing with the passengers and crew on a day at London Airport (the name of Heathrow Airport 1946–1966).
  1956: Julie, starring Doris Day may be the first film to feature a flight attendant piloting a plane to safety, later used in Airport 1975 (1975) and parodied in Airplane! (1980).
  1959: An Angel on Wheels, a German comedy with Romy Schneider as a guardian angel who disguises herself as a flight attendant.
  1963: Come Fly with Me features Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin and Lois Nettleton as air stewardesses who find romance in this adaptation of Bernard Glemser's 1960 novel, "Girl on a Wing".
  1965: Boeing Boeing, based on a popular play, stars Tony Curtis as an American journalist in Paris who is simultaneously engaged to three different flight attendants.
  1965: Mickey Rooney has a major role as a purser in the movie 24 Hours to Kill. It was filmed in Lebanon using a Comet jetliner.
  1967: memoir Coffee, Tea or Me?, by Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones recounts the romantic adventures of two flight attendants.
  In the late sixties the sexploitation film industry began producing erotic comedies and dramas based on the "swinging stewardess" fantasy image. This "stewardess-sploitation" cycle includes: Bedroom Stewardesses (Germany, 1968), The Stewardesses (1969), Stewardesses Report (Switzerland, 1971), The Air Stewardess (Greece, 1971), Swedish Fly Girls (Denmark, 1971), Fly Me (1973), The Naughty Stewardesses (1974), Blazing Stewardesses (1975), and Stewardess School (1986).
  1978-1979: Flying High, short-lived comedy-drama TV series starring Connie Sellecca about the lives of three attractive flight attendants.
  1985: "Waitress in the Sky", a derisive song about a stewardess, appeared on the critically praised album Tim by The Replacements.
  1996: Australian comedian Caroline Reid creates the character "Pam Ann" to satirise the stereotypical aspects of the job of the female flight attendant.
  1997: Jackie Brown, a Quentin Tarantino directed crime drama starring Pam Grier as a flight attendant.
  1997: Turbulence, action-thriller with Lauren Holly as a flight attendant.
  2001 - 2008, James Wysong wrote a series of popular books about his life as a flight attendant under the  "wryly chosen" penname, A. Frank Steward.
  2003: View from the Top - romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow as an aspiring flight attendant.
  2003: "Toxic", music video for Britney Spears hit single features Spears as a sexy stewardess in a highly stylized vintage Pan Am-style blue uniform.
  2003: Mile High, British television series features a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious low-cost carrier "Fresh!".
  2004: the single Air Hostess by Busted reaches No. 2 in the UK singles chart.
  2006: Attention Please, Japanese television drama about the training of flight attendants for Japan Airlines
  2007: British pop 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.
  2008: Happy Flight, which is about a copilot and flight attendant on an ANA flight to Hawaii.
  2011-2012: Pan Am, 
caption: 1966 pub sign in Tollerton, England
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