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Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy movie primarily based on the 1971 musical of the equal call by means of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Written by Bronte Woodard[2] (version with the aid of Allan Carr) and directed by means of Randal Kleiser in his theatrical characteristic movie debut, the film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer scholar Sandy Olsson, who broaden an attraction for every other all through a summer time romance. The movie stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as Danny and Sandy.
Released on June 16, 1978, Grease was a success both seriously and commercially, becoming the best-grossing musical film ever at the time.[three] Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-quality-selling album of the 12 months in the United States, behind the soundtrack of the 1977 blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (which also starred Travolta)[4] and earned an Oscar nomination for "Hopelessly Devoted to You" on the 51st Academy Awards. In 2020, the movie became selected for protection in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, traditionally, or aesthetically vast".[five]
Launching the franchise of the same name, a sequel, Grease 2, changed into launched in 1982, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer as a newer elegance of greasers. Few of the unique cast contributors reprised their roles. As of 2020, a Paramount+ series, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, primarily based on Grease, and a prequel, titled Summer Lovin', are in production.[6][7]Plot[edit]
In the summer time of 1958, neighborhood boy Danny Zuko and visiting Australian Sandy Olsson meet on the beach and fall in love. When the summer season comes to an quit, Sandy frets that they'll by no means meet again, but Danny tells her that their love is "simplest the start". At the begin of the seniors' term at Rydell High School Danny resumes his function as leader of the T-Birds greaser gang such as Doody, Sonny, Putzie, and his great pal Kenickie. Greaser girl clique the Pink Ladies arrives, which include Frenchy, Marty, Jan and leader Rizzo.
Sandy's parents continue to be in America and enroll Sandy at Rydell; she befriends Frenchy, who's thinking about dropping out to end up a beautician. Danny and Sandy recount their quick romance to their respective agencies, Sandy recalling a romantic summer and Danny implying a extra bodily experience.
When Sandy ultimately says Danny's call, Rizzo arranges a wonder reunion at a pep rally in which Sandy meets Tom, a jock, and Kenickie unveils his new used automobile, Greased Lightnin', which he plans on road racing after a healing. Danny continues his bad-boy personality in the front of his gang and Sandy, who storms off dissatisfied. At a Pink Ladies pajama celebration Sandy falls unwell from ingesting, trying a cigarette, and having her ears pierced through Frenchy. Rizzo departs for a tryst inside the lower back seat of Kenickie's automobile, for the duration of which the condom breaks.
Rizzo and Kenickie are disturbed with the aid of Leo, chief of rival gang the Scorpions, and his female friend Cha-Cha. Danny, with Coach Calhoun's help, becomes a runner to win Sandy again from Tom; it really works, however their friends crash the reunion. Kenickie and Rizzo part after a controversy. A mum or dad angel advises Frenchy to go back to high school after a mishap in splendor class leaves her with sweet-pink hair.
The college dance arrives, broadcast stay on National Bandstand and hosted through DJ Vince Fontaine, who flirts with Marty. Rizzo and Kenickie spite each other by means of bringing Leo and Cha-Cha as their dates. In a chaotic hand jive, Danny and Sandy dance well, however simply earlier than the winners are announced Sonny pulls Sandy away and Cha-Cha cuts in to win with Danny, as Sandy leaves disappointed and the T-Birds moon America.
Danny tries to make it up to Sandy by taking her to a power-in theater but she leaves when he makes an inept pass. Rizzo fears she is pregnant after missing a period and confides in Marty, who tells Sonny, who inadvertently spreads the rumor to the plain father Kenickie, though Rizzo denies it to him.
On race day, Kenickie is concussed through his very own automobile door so Danny takes the wheel, triumphing the race after Leo spins out. Sandy, looking from afar, concludes she still loves Danny and makes a decision to change her attitude and appearance to electrify him. She asks Frenchy for her assist.
On the ultimate day of college the elegance celebrates their graduation as Principal Greta McGee and assistant Blanche sob approximately the class's departure. Rizzo unearths she is not pregnant and reunites with Kenickie. Danny and Sandy every find they have modified for each different: Danny has turn out to be a letterman, and Sandy a greaser girl. They go away in the Greased Lightnin' vehicle, which takes flight.Cast[edit]Principal cast[edit]Protagonists[edit]
- John Travolta as Danny Zuko
- Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson
- Jeff Conaway as Kenickie
- Barry Pearl as Doody
- Michael Tucci as Sonny LaTierri
- Kelly Ward as Putzie
- Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo
- Didi Conn as Frenchy
- Jamie Donnelly as Jan
- Dinah Manoff as Marty Maraschino
- Eddie Deezen as Eugene Felsnic
- Susan Buckner as Patricia "Patty" Simcox
- Lorenzo Lamas as Thomas "Tom" Chisum
- Dennis Cleveland Stewart as Leo "Crater-Face" Balmudo
- Annette Charles as Charlene "Cha-Cha" DiGregorio
- Eve Arden as Principal McGee
- Dody Goodman as Blanche Hodel
- Sid Caesar as Coach Vince Calhoun
- Alice Ghostley as Mrs. Murdock
- Darrell Zwerling as Mr. Lynch
- Dick Patterson as Mr. Rudie
- Fannie Flagg as Nurse Wilkins
- Joan Blondell as Vi
- Frankie Avalon as Teen Angel
- Edd Byrnes as Vince Fontaine
- Johnny Contardo and Sha Na Na as Johnny Casino & The Gamblers
- Ellen Travolta as a Frosty Palace waitress
Director Randal Kleiser took numerous liberties with the unique supply material, maximum appreciably shifting the putting from an urban Chicago setting (based on William Howard Taft High School[eight]), because the authentic musical were, to a extra suburban locale, reflecting his personal teenage years at Radnor High School within the suburbs of Philadelphia.[6] He had little manipulate over the musical components of the movie; his choice of theme music, a composition by way of Charles Fox and Paul Williams, turned into overruled while Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr commissioned a tune from Stigwood's client Barry Gibb on the remaining minute, which displeased Kleiser.[9][10]Casting[edit]
John Travolta had formerly labored with Stigwood on Saturday Night Fever, recorded the top-10 hit "Let Her In" in 1976, and had previously appeared as Doody in a journeying manufacturing of the degree model of Grease. He made some of casting tips that Stigwood ultimately commonplace, along with suggesting Kleiser (who had by no means directed a theatrical function before this however had directed Travolta within the 1976 telefilm The Boy inside the Plastic Bubble) as director, and Olivia Newton-John, then regarded nearly completely as a more than one Grammy triumphing pop and united states of america singer, as Sandy. Newton-John had achieved little performing earlier than this movie, with only two film credits (1965's Funny Things Happen Down Under and the little-seen 1970 movie Toomorrow, which predated her making a song breakthrough) to her call as much as that time. Before accepting the position, Newton-John asked a screen check for Grease to keep away from some other career setback.[11] The display test turned into finished with the pressure-in movie scene. Newton-John, who changed into born in England and spent maximum of her early life in Australia, was not able to carry out with a resounding American accessory, and thus her person became rewritten to be Australian. Before Newton-John became employed, Allan Carr became thinking about severa names consisting of Carrie Fisher,[12][thirteen] Ann-Margret, Deborah Raffin,[14] Susan Dey and Marie Osmond for the lead function. Osmond almost took the position before she found out the extent to which the character converted into a rebellion and grew to become it down[15] to big name in Goin' Coconuts as a substitute. Newton-John agreed to a discounted asking price in change for megastar billing.[eleven] In a case of life imitating art, Newton-John's personal musical career would go through a metamorphosis much like that of the Sandy Olsson man or woman; her subsequent album after Grease, the provocatively titled Totally Hot, featured a miles greater sexual and dad-oriented method, with Newton-John appearing on the album cover in comparable all-leather-based attire and teased hair.[16]