She currently has homes in both the USA and Australia. She performed the background vocals on John Denver's "Fly Away" song. She represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest in Was a close friend of Karen Carpenter. Ex-aunt-in-law of Steven Lee. A great-aunt of Layla Lee-Curtis. Fills her house with lilies and orchids. Loves cosmetics and always does her own make-up for photo sessions. Never leaves home without her passport and lipstick.
The most treasured item in her wardrobe is a beautiful opal and diamond ring that her mother left her. Would like to achieve total peace before she dies. Underwent surgery for breast cancer, she declared bankruptcy, and her father died of liver cancer. Missing since January , he was found in a Mexican beach town, living under the name of Pat Kim and working on a yacht that carries tourists in and out of a marina near Sayulita, Mexico. She was awarded an O. She was awarded the A.
Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the entertainment industry as a singer and actor, and to the community through organizations supporting breast cancer treatment, education, training and research, and the environment.
Fractured her coccyx while filming the dance sequence "Suddenly" in "Xanadu" Appeared on "People Weekly" magazine's first official pop cover 24 February Shortly after the success of "Grease", was considered for the lead role in a film version of "Evita" one of many versions that were scrapped before seeing the light of day. Granddaughter of the German physicist and mathematician Max Born. Ranked 92 on VH1's Sexiest Artists. And because I had clout, I could get the number.
There was plenty of emotional upheaval going on during the making of Grease. Conaway resented Travolta for taking the song "Greased Lightnin'" away from him. Travolta was still coping with the death of his girlfriend , actress Diana Hyland, in March , and often called Grease 's director seeking support. Conaway ended up falling for Newton-John's older sister when they met at a party. For Newton-John, pulling off her character's last-minute transformation from good girl to T-Bird temptress "was an opening up for me.
I felt from it that I wanted to try different things. I was open to everything new," she told Rolling Stone. Amidst these moments of emotion, the actors bonded. Pearl told Yahoo Entertainment , "We all got along. It was 15 weeks of a labor of love. You see it when you watch it. At the end of filming, the cast had enjoyed themselves so much they were ready to make a proposed sequel, Summer School.
However, producers didn't know how big a hit they had on their hands and the proposed sequel wasn't filmed a few years later Grease 2 , starring Michelle Pfeiffer , would get the green light, but it didn't recapture the success or the magic of the original movie.
Before heading their separate ways, cast members were able to enjoy themselves one last time at the wrap party. According to Conn, Channing brought some "special brownies" to the event, which she shared with everyone. Conn said in a Daily Mail interview that her recollection of the party is therefore vague: "I really don't remember much, just dancing and lying on the floor laughing with everybody.
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Among the known and apparent companions of the artist are several recognizable names, including Leon Trotsky and Georgia O'Keeffe. Most of the extras won a nationwide contest to be in this movie. Danny's blue windbreaker at the beginning of this movie was intended as a nod to Rebel Without a Cause The cast had a sock hop on the first day of rehearsal to learn dance moves and get to know each other. The twenty principal background dancers all had character names, including Sauce, Bart, Bubba, Midge, and Moose.
The original Broadway production opened at the Eden Theater on February 14, and ran for three thousand three hundred eighty-eight performances, setting a record.
Adrienne Barbeau and Barry Bostwick were in the original Broadway cast. John Travolta appeared at some time as a replacement on Broadway in the role of "Doody".
Marilu Henner , an alumnus of the original Chicago production, appeared as a replacement in the role of "Marty". Richard Gere is also listed as an understudy to many male roles, including Danny Zuko. Gere played Zuko in the London production in Lucie Arnaz was the first choice for the role of Rizzo. She was allegedly dropped from consideration when her mother, Lucille Ball , called Paramount Pictures and said, "I used to own that studio!
My daughter's not doing a screentest! Carrie Fisher was considered for the role of Sandy. Kleiser couldn't tell from the scene whether Fisher was right for the part, so he kept looking. The show title, "Grease", was riffing on "Hair", a Broadway hit about the s which had come out a few years before "Grease". In the same way, "Hairspray" was a riff on "Grease". John Travolta kept lip-syncing "heap lap trials" instead of "heat lap trials", and Director Randal Kleiser claims it's visible in the finished product.
Kleiser believed Travolta was distracted after reading a magazine article that morning about his recently deceased girlfriend, Diana Hyland. Didi Conn said that most of the cast became like a family, and Susan Buckner was a bit of an outcast, much like her character.
They appear as jukebox tunes, or band numbers at the high school dance. Originally, Sandy was not supposed to participate in the dance contest at all. She was supposed to be sidetracked and subdued by Sonny before the contest even started, allowing Cha Cha to jump in and take her place and win the contest. But Olivia Newton-John was anxious to do some dancing in the movie, even though she was not a professionally trained dancer like John Travolta. So she convinced Director Randal Kleiser to let her dance with Danny in the contest for a few minutes, and then for Sonny to jump in and subdue her a few minutes later.
Scenes inside the Frosty Palace contain obvious blurred Coca-Cola signs. When Carr saw footage of the a scene with Coca-Cola products and signage, he ordered Randal Kleiser to either re-shoot the scene with PepsiCo products or remove the Coca-Cola logos from the scene. Re-shoots were deemed too expensive and time-consuming, so optical mattes were used to cover up or blur out the Coca-Cola references. The "blurring" covered up trademarked menu signage and a large wall poster, but a red cooler with the logo was left unchanged.
According to Kleiser, "We just had to hope that Pepsi wouldn't complain. They didn't. Didi Conn is the only actress in the cast to appear in all three versions: this movie, Grease 2 , and Grease Live! Director Randal Kleiser hated the opening song. He felt the lyrics were too dark and cynical for the light, fun movie he was making.
Kleiser, a young upstart director, felt he had no clout to ask for changes. The lyrics describe a lost generation in revolt and the rebellion, which described the Baby Boomer Generation and the s and s better than the Eisenhower Era Silent Generation of the s.
Director Randal Kleiser did not like the theme song, since it did not fit the movie very well, but he put it in anyway after pressure from the producers and the studio to do as many tie-ins to Saturday Night Fever as possible. The song became a hit and audiences seem to love it, even though it is not from the original musical, and really has nothing to do with the movie at all.
Deep Throat star Harry Reems was originally cast as the coach. Paramount Pictures eventually gave the role to Sid Caesar , as protests over Reems' past porn roles were threatening this movie's success. The official premiere after-party was at Studio At the cast party, the T-Bird actors handed out buttons with a picture of them mooning the camera. The only time you hear anything close to it, is when you hear the word "greased" in the song "Greased Lightning" and, of course in the animated opening credits, as well in the closing credits.
The "blonde pineapple" line was improvised by Barry Pearl Doody. This movie was originally rated "PG". It was subsequently re-rated "PG" for its 20th Anniversary theatrical re-release. Writer and Producer Allan Carr met Olivia Newton-John at a party thrown by fellow Australian singer Helen Reddy and was "completely smitten" and begged her to sign on for the part.
The actual hand jive is a dance just for the hands. Choreographer Patricia Birch added the feet and jumps. Didi Conn hid under a security guard's desk to sneak a peek at the script before her audition. Jamie Donnelly had prematurely grey hair, which she dyed black to play Jan. Her hair grew really quickly, so her roots had to be colored in daily with a black crayon. One of the dancers passed out from sunstroke while filming in one hundred six degrees Fahrenheit forty-one degrees Celsius heat.
The actress pretending to vomit when Sandy tells her story during "Summer NIghts" was another conscious attempt by Choreographer Patricia Birch to undermine the saccharine quality of the material and make it edgier to reflect the "tough way these kids treat each other" according to Birch's own words. While shooting, the cast of The Bad News Bears challenged this cast to a softball game. John Travolta pitched. In , Randal Kleiser called Sherry Lansing , then head of Paramount Pictures, and insisted that this movie had to come back again for its 20th Anniversary.
Lansing informed Kleiser that George Lucas had called her a few days earlier and said that out of all of the movies in the Paramount Pictures vault, this was the one that should come back. Lucas explained that every nine-year-old he knew watched a VHS copy of this movie every day. Both appeared in Imitation of Life , the same year as the class of this movie graduates. Susan Dey and Deborah Raffin were the first choices for the role of Sandy.
Dey declined the role after her manager advised against it. In the Broadway production, that is his big number, not Danny Zuko's. When John Travolta announced that he was taking it from Jeff Conaway Kenickie for the movie version, everyone in the cast, including Choreographer Patricia Birch and Conaway, who complained vehemently about losing the number even years later in interviews, was very against Travolta taking it and complained about this to the producers.
But Travolta had the clout to steal the number, so he did. This was partly to keep up with Olivia Newton-John , who had added two numbers for this movie that were not in the Broadway production.
Rydell High School is a reference to teen idol Bobby Rydell , who had a million selling hit with "Swingin' School" in The "Summer Nights" number was originally called "Foster Beach", which is a popular beach in Chicago. Before the slumber party scene, the girls painted each other's nails, talked dirty, and had a pillow fight.
Stockard Channing has won several Emmy Awards, though. Grease ushered in the s craze of the s. One unnamed studio executive said he would not have "that man" in the movie, which Carr interpreted as the executive having a personal vendetta against the legendary artist.
The musical had been running for seven years when this movie came out. Olivia Newton-John insisted on a screentest for the role of Sandy Olsson. She was concerned that she didn't have the acting skills, and would look too old to be a high school student. The part was originally meant for Susan Dey , who turned it down on her manager's advice. The original Broadway Rizzo was played by Adrienne Barbeau.
At the time when this movie came out, Adrienne was appearing on Maude She was passed over to play Rizzo in favor of Stockard Channing , who is one year older than Adrienne. John Travolta turned down the male lead in Pretty Baby in order to star in this movie. Included amongst the American Film Institute's list of the four hundred movies nominated for the Top Greatest American Movies.
Greasers were a popular subculture and community in the s. The greaser subculture may have emerged in the post-World War II era amongst the motorcycle clubs and gangs of the late s and the s. The original greasers were aligned by a feeling of disillusion with American popular culture, either through a lack of economic opportunity in spite of the post-war boom, or a marginalization enacted by the general domestic shift towards homogeneity.
Most were male, often of a non-WASP ethnicity, and working-class, and held interest in hotrod culture or motorcycling which explains the "Greased Lightning" number in this movie, and the "Cool Riders" number in Grease 2 A handful of middle class youth were drawn to the subculture for its rebellious attitude. This explains the rebellious attitudes of the T-Birds and their female counterparts the Pink Ladies in this movie. Stenography, which involved taking shorthand notes of dictated letters, then typing them up, was one of the few jobs offered to inexperienced female high school graduates in the s.
Once hired into a company, they basically waited until they were needed. The steno resource pool included several "office girls". John Travolta starred in this and the similarly-themed Hairspray ; both were period piece musicals about hair which were directed and produced by gay men. Many critics, like Roger Ebert , complained that the actors and actresses were too old for the high school characters they were supposed to be playing.
Roger Ebert wrote in his column: "One problem I always have, watching the movie, is that all the students look too old. They're supposed to be 16 or 17, I guess, but they look in their late 20s, and don't seem comfortable as teenagers. Stockard Channing was thirty-three when she played Rizzo who's also supposed to be about seventeen. The spinning knife blades mounted on the hubcaps of the Scorpions car at the Thunder Road car race were an homage, or even a copy, of the similarly mounted spinning knives on Messala's racing chariot in Ben-Hur In both races, the spinning blades ripped out the sides of the opposing vehicle, but failed to destroy the wheels, and the hero was the victor.
John Travolta revealed in a interview that Linda Ronstadt was considered for Sandy. In a interview discussing Survive! This was the top grossing movie of At the time it came out, it was the highest grossing musical of all time. This was the last time a musical topped the box-office charts in the history of movies.
The Scorpions' car is Mercury Custom. The car Danny takes to the drive-in the "sin wagon" is a Dodge Wayfarer. Of all of the actors and actresses in this movie, Frankie Avalon was the only one who was in a s musical - Jamboree! After the BBC aired the movie in Dec. Soon after, co-star Olivia Newton-John said during an interview on the Australian podcast "A Life of Greatness" that those who criticize "Grease" and say it is sexist and lacking in diversity need to "relax a little bit" and called those comments "kind of silly.
It's a fun movie musical and not to be taken so seriously. I think everyone is taking everything so seriously.
We need to relax a little bit and just enjoy things for what they are. That's all. In a recent interview about this movie, Didi Conn said, " Susan Buckner? We all made fun of her and ignored her. Although Jeff Conaway admits in interviews he had an on-set fling with her.
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