Bloody Mary (South Pacific)

She is often cast as black (most famously by Juanita Hall, who originated the character on the stage, and later portrayed her in the 1958 film), Asian or Pacific Islander.

Juanita Hall won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for originating this role on stage.

A song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about her makes U.S. Navy sailors sing, "Bloody Mary is the girl I love", "her skin is tender as a baseball glove", and that she chews "betel nuts", and doesn't use "Pepsodent", with the refrain "Now ain't that too damn bad!"

[1] Kirsten Thompson posits "that Bloody Mary was a composite of an unnamed Tonkinese worker, Madame Gardel, and aspects of Aggie’s character and personality.

"[2] Françoise Gardel was visited by Michener when 60 Minutes took him back to Vanuatu to revisit the settings of his novel.