Grease movie Singer Olivia Newton-John
Grease is a 1978 American musical movie directed by Randal Kleiser and produced by using Paramount Pictures. It is based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the identical call about enthusiasts in a Fifties excessive school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway. It became a hit both significantly and on the field office; its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second one-first-rate promoting album of the 12 months within the United States, at the back of the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, another movie starring Travolta.[3]A sequel, Grease 2, became launched in 1982, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. Only a number of the authentic forged members reprised their roles. In the USA, it's far the quantity #1 highest-grossing musical, to date.Plot[]
In the summer season of 1958, teenager Danny Zuko meets Sandy Olsson on the seashore and fall in love. When the summer involves an stop, Sandy—who's going lower back to Australia—frets that they will by no means see each different once more, but Danny tells her that their love is "handiest the start".The film moves to the begin of the brand new faculty 12 months at Rydell High School.Danny, a greaser, is a member of the T-Birds, which includes his pleasant friend Kenickie, Doody, Sonny, and Putzie. The Pink Ladies additionally arrive, including Rizzo, Frenchy, Marty, and Jan.Unbeknownst to Danny, Sandy's mother and father decided to transport to America, and Frenchy befriends her.Oblivious to each different's presence at faculty, Danny and Sandy tell their respective businesses the accounts of events in the course of the pair's brief romance.Upon getting to know that Danny Zuko is the boy Sandy met at the beach, the Pink Ladies are taken aback, and Rizzo arranges for the 2 to reunite, however Danny is underneath pressure to keep his bad-boy attitude in the front of his pals and Sandy is devastated.Frenchy tries to cheer Sandy up by means of inviting her to enroll in her and the girls at a pajama birthday celebration at her residence.During the birthday party, Sandy turns into sick from trying smoking, drinking, seeing blood after Frenchy, who comes to a decision to wait splendor college, pierces certainly one of her ears. The T-Birds arrive outdoor of Frenchy's house in Kenickie's new vehicle, but an disillusioned Danny leaves.Rizzo additionally leaves to make out with her boyfriend, Kenickie. The two are later interrupted through Leo, leader of the T-Birds' rival gang, the Scorpions, and his girlfriend, Cha-Cha, and Leo reasons harm to his vehicle.When Danny sees Sandy with one of the jocks, Tom Chisum, he tries to provide an explanation for to Sandy his state of affairs, announcing "it become him, however it wasn't him."Seeing that Sandy likes jocks, he tells her he can "run circles round those jerks," but Sandy says she'll believe it while she sees it.Danny then turns to Coach Calhoun to get into athletics, and finally becomes a runner.After falling over a hurdle, and Sandy talks to him, they reunite and try and move on a date, however their buddies crash it.After they depart, Kenickie and Rizzo get right into a fight and cut up.Before the eating place closes, Frenchy takes to the air her bandana and suggests Vi, one of the waitresses, her crimson hair, pronouncing she had a problem in tinting magnificence, and she or he dropped out of splendor college.After Vi turns off the lights, Frenchy is visited by using a mother or father angel who advises her to head returned to high school.The college dance arrives, broadcasted stay on countrywide tv and hosted via DJ Vince Fontaine, who flirts with Marty.Rizzo and Kenickie try and spite each other with the aid of bringing Leo and Cha-Cha as their dates.Frenchy returns with blond hair and a matching yellow get dressed, whilst Danny and Sandy arrive together, and Johnny Casino & The Gamblers play a few dance songs to begin the event.During the dance contest, Sonny grabbed Sandy and took her far from Danny, and Cha-Cha grabbed Danny's arm and that they danced collectively.Devastated, Sandy leaves the dance to move home.Cha-Cha and Danny win the dance contest, but after they dance collectively to the tune "Blue Moon," Putzie, Doody, and Sonny "moon" for the camera.Danny tries to make it up to Sandy by taking her to a drive-in film theater, but while he attempts to make out with her in his automobile, Sandy fights back, and leaves to move home.Meanwhile, Rizzo confides in Marty that she skipped a length, and fears she is probably pregnant.Marty asks if it is Kenickie, but she answers: "No, you do not know the guy."Marty then tells Sonny, and he spreads the information to every person else, and it ultimately reaches Kenickie.He tells Rizzo he would not run away from his mistakes, and Rizzo tells him it became someone else's mistake, and Kenickie is off the hook.The race arrives, but Kenickie is knocked out by using his personal vehicle door thanks to the careless behavior of his friend Putzie, so Danny takes up the challenge.He and Leo race, and Leo cheats by way of causing harm to the auto, however then crashes, leaving Danny as the winner.Angry and humiliated, Leo leaves.Sandy watches from afar, concluding that she still loves Danny, but feels her goody--shoes image would not take a seat along with her new American existence, and asks Frenchy to assist her trade.On the closing day of college, even as Principal McGee and her assistant, Blanche sob about the departing magnificence, the magnificence celebrates their commencement on the truthful at the college grounds.Rizzo learns she is not pregnant and reunites with Kenickie.Danny has come to be a jock, and is carrying a letterman sweater.He reassures his fellow T-Birds that he is not leaving them, and that Sandy manner loads to him.Afterward, Sandy appears at the honest dressed in a black leather jacket, an off-the-shoulder black top, black pants and belt, crimson excessive heels, teased hair, makeup, and hoop earrings.Everyone is shocked, in particular Danny.In song, the 2 admit they love each other. The movie ends with Danny and Sandy departing within the Greased Lightning Car together, and Sandy waves good-bye to their pals. The movie ends with credit inside the style of a yearbook.Cast[]Principal forged[]
- John Travolta as Danny Zuko
- Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson
- Jeff Conaway as Kenickie
- Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo
- Barry Pearl as Doody
- Michael Tucci as Sonny Latierre
- Kelly Ward as Putzie
- Didi Conn as Frenchy
- Jamie Donnelly as Jan
- Dinah Manoff as Marty Maraschino
- Eve Arden as Principal McGee
- Dody Goodman as Blanche Hodel
- Sid Caesar as Coach Calhoun
- Eddie Deezen as Eugene Felsnic
- Susan Buckner as Patty Simcox
- Lorenzo Lamas as Tom Chisum
- Dennis C. Stewart as Leo Balmudo
- Annette Charles as Charlene "Cha-Cha" DiGregorio
- Joan Blondell as Vi
- Ellen Travolta as Waitress
- Frankie Avalon as Teen Angel
- Edd Byrnes as Vince Fontaine
- Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers
- Alice Ghostley as Mrs. Murdock
- Darrell Zwerling as Mr. Lynch
- Dick Patterson as Mr. Rudie
- Fannie Flagg as Nurse Wilkins
- Michael Biehn as Mike (uncredited)
Singer Olivia Newton-John, cast at Travolta's urging,[four] had finished little appearing earlier than this film. She seemed inside the 1970 film, Toomorrow, a technology fiction musical that pre-dated her preliminary chart achievement with 1971's "If Not for You". Cast with Newton-John and 3 male leads in an attempt with the aid of Don Kirshner to create some other Monkees, the movie failed miserably. This led Newton-John to call for a display test for Grease to avoid any other profession setback. The display take a look at was performed with the drive-in film scene.Two actors who have been considered for main roles in the movie were Henry Winkler and Marie Osmond. Winkler, who turned into gambling Fonzie on Happy Days, become at the beginning chosen to play Danny, however having twice already performed further leather-based-clad Fifties hoods in 1974's The Lords of Flatbush in addition to Happy Days, turned down the role for fear of being typecast. Osmond turned down the role of Sandy because she did not just like the reality that Sandy had to "flip horrific" to get the boy.[five] Adult movie famous person Harry Reems become at the start signed to play Coach Calhoun;[6] however, executives at Paramount nixed the idea because of Reems' preceding paintings in person movies,[7] and manufacturers cast Sid Caesar alternatively. Caesar was one among numerous veterans of Fifties tv (Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman) to be forged in assisting roles.Randal Kleiser directed John Travolta (who requested him for Grease)[8] and Kelly Ward in The Boy within the Plastic Bubble two years prior to Grease. Additionally, he had formerly worked (as an additional) alongside Frankie Avalon in 1966's Fireball 500.Filming places[]