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19-623: In the musical, Bali Ha'i is a volcanic island within sight of the island on which most of the action takes place. The troops think of Bali Ha'i as an exotic paradise, but it is off-limits—except to officers. Bali Ha'i's matriarch, Bloody Mary , conducts much business with the troops, and she meets Lt. Joseph Cable soon after he arrives. She sings to him her mysterious song "Bali Ha'i", with its haunting orchestral accompaniment, because she wants to entice him to visit her island. She doesn't tell him that she wants him to meet, and fall in love with, her young daughter Liat. Several commentators have noted that

38-699: 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!" Possible models for her are Aggie Grey or her sister Mary Croudace (Auntie Mary); hotelkeepers in Apia , Samoa who hosted American film stars and military personnel. They were daughters of an Englishman and his Samoan wife. Kirsten Thompson posits "that Bloody Mary

57-556: A capacity of 500,000 U.S. gallons or 1.9 megaliters) that Sbarboro had had built became a tourist attraction. By 1905, the wines had won medals at various international competitions. By 1910 the company owned over 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) in various holdings in the Central Valley . As the movement for prohibition of alcohol in the United States grew, Sbarboro became a leading spokesman for wine and temperance, but lived to see

76-488: A normal joint-stock company. In 1887, a collapse in grape prices forced the company to construct a winery and begin wine production itself. Key personnel in these early years, besides Sbarboro, were Charles Kohler, Paolo de Vecchi, and Pietro Rossi. Rossi led the company to develop its own agencies to sell directly to eastern markets; soon after the wine was being sold in Europe, South America, and Asia. The huge wine cistern (with

95-549: A spinoff prequel to Breaking Bad . In the episode, main character Jimmy McGill sings the song over the phone to Kim Wexler . Bali Hai is the brand name for a beer produced by Bali Hai Brewery in Indonesia. Italian Swiss Colony produced the " pop wine " Bali Hai in the 20th century. Bloody Mary (South Pacific) Bloody Mary is a character in the 1946 book Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener , which

114-460: A version on his 1955 album, Jazz Session ( Columbia CL 669); Andy Williams released a version on his 1958 album, Andy Williams Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein ; and Sergio Franchi included this song on his 1965 RCA Victor tribute to The Songs of Richard Rodgers . "Bali Ha'i" was based on the real island of Ambae (formerly Aoba Island ). Ambae is located in Vanuatu (known as New Hebrides at

133-471: The 1958 film adaptation , Bali Ha'i is portrayed by the real-life island of Tioman in Malaysia . However, the scene was filmed on the north shore of Kauaʻi ; Mount Makana was used as Bali Hai and is known as Bali Hai. Tunnel's Beach is often referred to as "Nurses' Beach", and the scene where Bloody Mary sings "Bali Ha'i" is set on Hanalei Bay . Mr. Bali Hai is the name of a mixed drink that originated at

152-644: The "real Bloody Mary" lived on Espiritu Santo for many years after the war and lived to the age of 102. Italian Swiss Colony (wine) Italian Swiss Colony was a 19th and 20th-century American wine company and brand. Based in Asti , Sonoma County, California , Italian Swiss Colony was at one time the leading wine producer in California. In 1881, Andrea Sbarboro founded an agricultural colony at Asti (named for Asti in Italy), primarily focused on grapes . Sbarboro's intent

171-628: The 1958 film), Asian or Pacific Islander . She trades with the US sailors who are stationed on nearby islands during the Second World War . She is learning English, and is proud that she will eventually "speak English as good as any crummy Marine". When the American spurns her daughter's hand out of prejudice, her most famous line is "Stingy stinker!" Juanita Hall won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in

190-570: The Bali Hai restaurant on Shelter Island in San Diego, California. The song is used in an episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun in which Tommy has a dream about his choir teacher singing the song seductively to him while Sally, Dick, and Harry call to him from a boat a very long way out at sea. " Bali Ha'i " is the sixth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Better Call Saul ,

209-476: The beginning of prohibition on January 16, 1920. The Italian Swiss Colony operation (then owned by National Distillers ) was acquired in 1953 by Louis Petri of Petri Wine (founded in 1886). Petri shepherded the growth of Italian Swiss Colony as a mass-market brand; wine was shipped in tankers to be bottled in New York. Television ads featuring Ludwig Stössel (voiced by Jim Backus ; yodeling by Bob Oates) with

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228-467: The brand from Italian Swiss Colony to just Colony (ISC also had other brands, including jug wine label Petri). In 1987 Allied Growers sold ISC Wines to Erly Industries, who merged it with Sierra Wine Company into a new entity. In 2015 the descendant of the company, now operating under the name Asti Winery and selling wine under the Souverain brand, and owning America's sixth-largest wine production facility,

247-439: The catchphrase "The little old winemaker – me!" appeared regularly on American national television. ( Dean Martin and others recorded a song titled on a parody of that line, " Little Old Wine Drinker Me ".) The company later became part of United Vintners (organized by Louis Petri and others), then was sold to Heublein in 1969, and later sold by Heublein to Allied Growers. By 1987, the company had been renamed to ISC Wines and

266-540: The longing nature of the song. In his memoir, The World Is My Home (1992), Michener writes of his time in the Treasury Islands : "On a rude signboard attached to a tree, someone had affixed a cardboard giving the settlement's name, and it was so completely different from ordinary names, so musical to my ear that I borrowed a pencil and in a soggy notebook jotted the name against the day when I might want to use it for some purpose I could not then envisage: Bali-ha'i." In

285-605: The opening melody of "Bali Ha'i" bears a resemblance to the "bride motif" in Franz Waxman 's musical score for the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein . The two melodies share an identical three-note pattern. Several versions of the show tune made the best sellers charts in 1949 . Perry Como 's version was the most successful at #5. Other versions appearing on the charts were by Paul Weston and his Orchestra (#10), Bing Crosby (recorded March 10, 1949) (#12), Peggy Lee (#13), and Frank Sinatra (#18). Later, Harry James released

304-518: The time the song was written). Ambae is visible on the horizon from Espiritu Santo island, where James A. Michener was stationed in World War II . Michener referred to the island in his book, Tales of the South Pacific , which is the basis for the musical South Pacific . The author used the tranquil, hazy image of the smoothly sloping island on the horizon to represent a not-so-distant but always unattainable place of innocence and happiness. Hence

323-472: Was a composite of an unnamed Tonkinese worker, Madame Gardel, and aspects of Aggie’s character and personality." Françoise Gardel was visited by Michener when 60 Minutes took him back to Vanuatu to revisit the settings of his novel. A 2001 article in Islands Magazine states that Michener renamed Aoba Island Bali-ha'i. The author interviewed the proprietor of a resort on Espiritu Santo , who claimed

342-416: Was made into the 1949 musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein , and later into a film in 1958. The Bloody Mary character is Vietnamese ( Tonkinese ). Tonkin is the northernmost region of what is now Vietnam. She was brought to the island by a French planter. She is often cast as black (most famously by Juanita Hall , who originated the character on the stage, and later portrayed her in

361-423: Was to establish a profitable enterprise that would provide work for the many Italians who had migrated to San Francisco (although there were at first some Italian speaking Swiss from Ticino , thus giving the colony its name, it soon became an entirely Italian-American enterprise.) The corporation had originally been organized to allow the workers to eventually buy ownership, but this never developed, and it remained

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