 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 DiMaggio's glove", and that she chews "betel nuts", and doesn't use "Pepsodent", with the refrain "Now ain't that too damn bad!