GREASE - opens in North American movie theaters on June 16, 1978

The cast still baffles me.

GREASE opening party at Studio 54. This is stock footage from ABC News. INTERESTING!!!!

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John arrive at Mann's Chinese Theater for the premiere of GREASE. Pandemonium ensues. Los Angeles mayor declares GREASE DAY.

R1 I hope you aren't criticising the age of the cast. I'll let you know that I'm just a doe-eyed 18 year old teen who may or may not be pregnant and is definitely not past her menopause.

I've always wondered if Stockard's subpar singing voice helped her get cast.

the segment of r2's video clip where the focus is Alan Carr and Grace Jones dancing is hilarious. Grace keeps saying over and over "turn it up"!

I'm the double-LP soundtrack. You knew two of my songs before the movie was even released in theaters.

Oops...I thought we were doing "Let's Be 'Grease'".

Sorry...

My fave track from the soundtrack is the single “Hopelessly Devoted To You” by Olivia Newton-John. It was the 4th single released from the album in September of 1978. It peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #3 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (written by John Farrar). The song lost to Donna Summer “Last Dance” from the movie THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY.

[quote]I've always wondered if Stockard's subpar singing voice helped her get cast.

They wanted Lucie Arnaz. Stockard was a last minute choice when they didn’t have anyone else.

Why couldn't Olivia learn to fake an American accent?

R10 Olivia was always a very average actress, so getting out of her comfort zone can be difficult. She's a wonderful singer, though, and was able to successfully refresh her career and music with Grease.

I saw it at the first matinee on Friday at the Village in Westwood. It got panned in the LA Times but the showing was sold out. Although it was so radically different than the show, it was obvious judging from the audience reaction it would be a huge hit.

"They wanted Lucie Arnaz. Stockard was a last minute choice when they didn’t have anyone else."

Could Arnaz have been as believable as a tough broad/slut as Channing?

Seems she had kind of a goody-goody image after coming off of Here's Lucy.

I'm sure Arnaz is probably kicking herself considering how wildly successful Grease has been.

Name one thing Arnaz has done since 1974.

It’s still “The Word!”

I loved the movie! I had a T-Shirt that had the logo done with a sparkly decal like the kind you used to iron on, but I bought it that way, not had it made at the Ye Olde T-Shirt Shoppe. It was my favorite T-Shirt that summer, I think was the last summer of things like that being important.

OMG, it looked like this, but it was, I think, red and silver and again it came attached to the shirt, I didn’t like the iron ones because they eventually peeled off, so that was important that the shirt came like that already.

Alan Carr was a character.

R17 Alan Carr was a flamboyant caricature.

R15 reminded me that I had a Grease logo t-shirt back in the day, too.

Pretty sure mine was light blue with a rather large-sized Grease glitter-type logo.

I had totally forgotten about it!

The logo looked like the pic...

Annette Charles (died of cancer) as Cha-Cha stood out ( danced out?) the most to me from the dance-off.

R19 Yes, that’s the exact one I had! Sorry my link didn’t work, thanks!

"Annette Charles (died of cancer) as Cha-Cha stood out ( danced out?) the most to me from the dance-off."

Good.

After all, she DID have the worst reputation at Saint Bernadette.

I appreciate Joe Jonas’ attempt at hand jiving in this song of the JoBros.

Wasn’t the youngest person in the cast, 35?

Dinah Manoff was actually early 20s, right?

I enjoyed the hell out of that movie. It was The Rocky Horror Picture Show for daylight viewing.

John Travolta wanted Ann Reinking to play ChaCha. He had a history with her from Over Here and the Hand Jive sequence is similar to her show stopping Charlie's Place, both choreographed by Pat Birch.

R24, Olivia was 28 yrs old. John is a few yrs younger than her.

Oh, r13, you just *had* to ask!

Dinah, seven years later, r25...

The soundtrack sound better in Icelandic:

*sounds

I was 12 years old in June 1978 when my family and I saw Grease at a movie theater in East Hampton, New York. I LOVED it.

There was talk that Stockard would get a Best Supporting Actress nomination. She walked away with the lions share of good reviews.

For some strange reason she followed up Grease by going to TV and doing two wretched TV shows back to back that killed whatever momentum she had going for her. It wasn't until the 90's with Six Degrees of Separation that she got her mojo back.

R30 Jasmine Guy is featured in that clip at around 1:46!

OP nis the best best poster with the worst reputation!

I wonder why they didn't consider Adrienne Barboobs for Rizzo. She played the role on Broadway and became a familiar, eh, face because of Maude. Adrienne said no one even contacted her but also said she felt that Allan Carr was putting his own package together and she wasn't affiliated with him. Channing was.

Apparently, Carr approached Liza to play Rizzo and got the expected turndown but she might have been very interesting. He tested Liza lite, aka Lorna but she flunked the test but he later put her in both Grease2 and Where the Boys Are.

Lorna's audition for Grease 2

R38- She STINKS

[quote]I wonder why they didn't consider Adrienne Barboobs for Rizzo. She played the role on Broadway and became a familiar, eh, face because of Maude.

I saw her in an interview one time. She said when the show was off-Broadway, the producers were trying to raise money and offered investment units to the cast. Each unit was $500. She didn’t invest because that was all the money she had in her savings account. Had she done so, she would have had a piece of the movie’s profits and been very comfortable financially.

Some things should stay lost.

People back then were snobby about TV vs Movie actors. Travolta has made the leap but most didn't.

OP is Patty Simcox, the bad seed of Rydell High.

As a13 year old growing up in. Yorkshire, I linedup aroundt the block to see this film. I was madly in love with JT, and fanatized about him coming to my shitty little seaside town to sweep me away. I still have a soft spot for him, now that we're both old and chubby. My tiny bedroom was a shrine to his beauty, with his face on every wall.

THANK YOU Alan Carr for "can't stop the music" and "where the boys are 84"!.... I wonder if he had a "hand' in picking up the hunk/beefcakes extras?

speaking of that, anyone who has watched and remembers "where the boys are 84" anyone know who that dark brown haired gorgeous bodybuilder in the white bikini shaking his ass and strutting his stuff in the hot bod contest was? he was hotter than the male escort stud holly johnson's character was trying to bed I think!.. although gotta love his entrance out of the water and his little animal print bikini strut!..

Holly Johnson!? Did he sing "Relax"?

It was interesting that the tone of the movie was changed from the stage version. The stage version was raunchy and mocked the 1950s, whereas the movie was more a love letter to it. They rode on the success of American Graffiti and Happy Days and created a nostalgic look at the 1950s.

The movie still features the term "pussy wagon."

My brother and I bust a gut laughing when this was broadcast on tv.

Right before the car race, Alice Ghostley (DL fave) says to John Travolta, "Haul ass." When it came to tv, the overdub was "Drive, kid!"

So after that, whenever me or my brother wanted to tell the other to hurry up, we'd say "Drive, kid!"

As a fan of the original 1978 film and the Broadway musical I expected to hate the Grease Live in 2016 with Aaron Tveit, but it was very enjoyable.

I loved Grease too. Olivia Newton John was everything I wanted to be. Olivia and Superstar Barbie were my ideals. Blond hair, big eyes, tight pants, high heeled clogs.

Am I the only one who thinks Sandy's makeover was mostly unflattering to Olivia? The make up especially made her look 45.

[quote] I expected to hate the Grease Live in 2016 with Aaron Tveit, but it was very enjoyable.

Yeah, Tveit almost killed me by throwing me out of the golf cart when he took a turn too fast.

Tveit makes Lorenzo Lamas seem charismatic.

They used camera filters to make everyone look like h.s. students.

It was Carr's idea to make the musical more a Frankie & Annette beach party movie.

R42, Carr definitely had less interest in prestige if he was even semi serious about using Susan Day as Sandy. He reportedly also tested Marie Osmond in a blonde wig. Yeeesh!

R56-Liza Minelli as Rizzo might have worked, and at least Liza can sing.

Lucie Jr. was disqualified when Allen Carr insisted she test and Lucy Sr. said, "no daughter of mine needs to do a screen test!"

Have the nude photos that Lorenzo Lamas shot for Playgirl ever turned up? I know his father allegedly had them destroyed but surely there are copies out there somewhere.

R58, an urban legend that Lucie wishes could be erased.

If Liza did Rizzo, it would have taken her away from that desperate, love me quality she projects in so many works. I also think they would have had to write another song for her to replace Worse Things and maybe another duet for her and Conaway. They were almost going to cut Worse Things anyways but Conaway showed up when they were filming and his presence helped keep the song in the movie.

[Quote] Carr definitely had less interest in prestige if he was even semi serious about using Susan Day as Sandy. He reportedly also tested Marie Osmond in a blonde wig. Yeeesh!

No cigar.

How many mortified and disgusted rent boys have had to survive a night with Allan Carr?

Not many.

Why didn't they hire Marni Nixon to dub Stockard Channing?

Adrienne Barbeau didn't like the film version of "Worse Things" because it sounded too much like Muzak.

How silly. The movie version tries to inject some drama with the "vocal recorded in a wind tunnel" effect.

June 16th is the gay Juneteenth.

I've always like the theory that the entire movie is the last gasps of Sandy's brain dying from drowning.

The theory goes that Danny tried to save her, but failed. In her final moments, Sandy lives the entire movie in her mind. The final scene flying into the sky is supposed to be her imagination of ascending to heaven with her great love.

Is this why they were playing "Grease" in the coffee shop today?

Frankie Valli was a eunuch and his falsetto was annoying.