Monica Meyer

Monica Meyer was a stewardess for overseas flights on Trans World Airlines at the time she appeared running across the beach in the "Nothing Like a Dame" sequence in "South Pacific", which took a day to shoot. While vacationing in Honolulu in September, 1957 with two colleagues, they had visited the location seeking bit parts in the picture. Director Joshua Logan ordered two swimsuit changes for Meyer and the others to more closely approximate the look of typical Pacific islanders during World War II. A native of Racine, Wisconsin where she resided at 1616 Grove Avenue and a 1951 graduate of Washington High School there, she had previously worked as a secretary for the J. I. Case Company before joining the airline in 1955.