Aggie Grey

Gray was friends with American writer James Michener and she and her sister Mary Croudace (Aunty Mary) were widely believed to be possible models for his character Bloody Mary that he created in Tales of the South Pacific (1946). The book was adapted into Broadway's musical blockbuster South Pacific (1949) by Rodgers and Hammerstein (collectively known as Rodgers and Hammerstein), and subsequently the 1958 film South Pacific.

Gray's sister Mary Croudace ran "The Casino" a boarding-house in Apia, and was reputed to have been the lover of a Marine general in the war. Mr Croudace, reputed to have been a New Zealand official, was long gone.

Grey is the subject of two biographies by Nelson Eustis and Fay Alailima, was on several postage stamps of Western Samoa, and was a pioneering figure of the Samoan hotel industry.

The Aggie Grey Hotel is now three resorts, two on Upolu island in Samoa, in Apia and Aggie's Lagoon and one resort, Le Méredien in Tahiti. In 2013 Aggie Grey's became part of the Sheraton chain.