Aggie Grey was born in Western Samoa in 1897 and died in 1988.
10 Facts About Aggie Grey
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Aggie Grey was a well-known hotelier and founder of Grey Investment Group and Aggie Grey's Hotel.
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Aggie Grey was born Agnes Genevieve Swann, the daughter of William Swann an English chemist and his Samoan wife Pele.
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Aggie 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.
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Aggie Grey founded her hotel in 1933, and became one of Samoa's most popular and well known figures.
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Aggie Grey hosted many notable actors, including Dorothy Lamour, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, William Holden, Raymond Burr and Robert Morley who stayed at her hotel.
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Aggie Grey's hotel was involved with the production and housing of the crew on the American film production of Return to Paradise starring Gary Cooper.
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Aggie Grey was friends with American writer James Michener and she and her sister Mary Croudace were widely believed to be possible models for his character Bloody Mary that he created in Tales of the South Pacific.
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The Aggie Grey Hotel is three resorts, two on Upolu island in Samoa, in Apia and Aggie's Lagoon and one resort, Le Meredien in Tahiti.
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In 2013 Aggie Grey's became part of the Sheraton chain.