the diner's club card room became a cultural icon hollywood cashed in on the charge-it craze with the 1962 movie the man from the diner's club in it,an employee at issues a credit card to a well-known gangster and has to get it back in order to keep his job the ideal toy corporation joined in the trend when it created a board game called game the idea of the credit card quickly expanded outside the united states card became the first international charge card in 1952 with franchises in canada , france and cuba in 1955 western airline became the fist airline to accept card ten year later the card was accepted be every airline in the united stated expanded its services to hotel car rental and other businesses