 Actress Patty Poulsen, who played Joan, one of the Stewardesses  aboard the "Golden Argosy", was an actual stewardess for American  Airlines. She was the winner of a Stewardess beauty contest of which  one of the prizes was a role in the film Airport. She was also  used heavily in American Airlines advertising of its new uniforms  during the mid to late sixties, photos that have, more recently,  appeared in several different coffee table books celebrating the  history of the airline hostess.