Grease American musical romantic comedy movie directed via Randal Kleiser
Grease (also referred to as Grease 1) is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy movie directed via Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John inside the lead roles. It also starred Stockard Channing and the overdue Jeff Conaway.
The movie was a hit both critically and on the container workplace and the soundtrack album ended the year 1978 as the second one-first-rate selling album of the 12 months within the United States, behind the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever.
Set within the summer of 1958, neighborhood boy Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and vacationing Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) meet at the beach and fall in love. When the summer season ends, Sand (who is going returned to Australia) concerns that they’ll in no way meet once more, but Danny tells her that their love is “simplest the beginning”.
The movie moves to the begin of the seniors’ time period at Rydell High School.
Danny (who is a greaser) is a member of the T-Birds which includes his quality pal Kenickie (Jeff Conaway), Doody (Barry Pearl), Sonny (Michael Tucci) & Putzie (Kelly Ward).
Another clique, the Pink Ladies which consists of popular ladies also arrive to high school consists of of Rizzo (Stockard Channing), Frenchy (Didi Conn), Marty (Dinah Manoff) & Jan (Jamie Donnelly). After Sandy’s parents determine not to return to Australia, Sandy enrolls at Rydell and is befriended via Frenchy, who considers dropping out of school to grow to be a beautician.
Unaware of each other’s presence at Rydell, Danny and Sandy tell their respective groups the accounts of occasions at some stage in the pair’s short romance with out initially citing the opposite’s call. Sandy’s version emphasizes the romance of the affair at the same time as Danny’s version is extra sexual (and consequently presumably much less honest).
When Sandy in the end says Danny’s name, Rizzo arranges a marvel reunion for the 2, however Danny is forced to preserve his bad-boy mindset in the front of his pals, frightening Sandy, who storms off. Frenchy invites the women to a pajama birthday party, however Sandy turns into ill from trying a cigarette, ingesting and getting her ears pierced by using Frenchy.
The T-Birds nearly crash the party in Kenickie’s Greased Lightning vehicle, however a responsible Danny leaves, accompanied via Rizzo, who leaves to make out with Kenickie, who later turns into her boyfriend.
The two are disturbed with the aid of Leo (Dennis C. Stewart), leader of the T-Birds’ rival gang, the Scorpions, and his female friend Cha-Cha (Annette Charles), main to a planned car race between Leo and Kenickie. In an attempt to impress Sandy, Danny turns to Coach Calhoun (Sid Caesar) to get into sports, sooner or later turning into a runner. He reunites with Sandy and that they attempt to go on a date, but their pals crash it, ensuing in Kenickie and Rizzo arguing and parting. Left alone, Frenchy is visited by using a father or mother angel (Frankie Avalon) who advises her to return to high school after a mishap in beauty elegance leaves her with sweet-purple hair.
The faculty dance arrives, broadcast live on television and hosted by using DJ Vince Fontaine, (Edd Byrnes) who flirts with Marty. Rizzo and Kenickie try and spite one another with the aid of bringing Leo and Cha-Cha as their dates whilst Danny and Sandy arrive collectively. They dance nicely and are anticipated to win, however simply earlier than the winners are announced they’re separated via Sonny, Danny and Cha-Cha (who used to be boyfriend and lady friend) end up acting collectively and winning.
Danny attempts to make it up to Sandy by way of taking her to a force-in theater, but he makes an inept pass at her which reasons Sandy to depart. Meanwhile, Rizzo issues that she might be pregnant after she missing her length and confides in Marty, however Marty tells Sonny and he inadvertently spreads the rumor to Kenickie (the obvious father) even though Rizzo denies this to him.
The race arrives, however Kenickie is knocked out by means of his own car door way to Putzie’s careless behavior, so Danny takes his place. He & Leo race until Leo crashes and leaves humiliated with Danny because the winner. Sandy watches from afar, concluding that she still loves Danny & she comes to a decision to alternate her mind-set and her appearance to affect him, asking asks Frenchy to assist her.
On the last day of college at the same time as Principal McGee (Eve Arden) and her assistant Blanche (Dody Goodman) are sobbing about the departing class, the magnificence celebrates their graduation at the fair at the school grounds.
Rizzo discovers that she’s no longer pregnant after all and reunites with Kenickie. Danny will become a jock, however he is shocked whilst Sandy arrives with a brand new hairstyle, dressed in black leather and is seen smoking (although she nevertheless appears over at Frenchy to check what to do when Danny notices her).
In track, Sandy & Danny admit they love each different and reunite. The two of them depart in the Greased Lightning car collectively, which takes flight & they wave good-bye to their friends.
The film ends with credit within the fashion of a yearbook.Cast
- John Travolta as Danny Zuko
- Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson
- Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo
- Jeff Conaway as Kenickie
- Barry Pearl as Doody
- Michael Tucci as Sonny LaTierri
- Kelly Ward as Roger “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 Felsnick
- 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
ProductionCasting
At the time, singer Olivia Newton-John (who become solid on the urging of John Travolta) had achieved little appearing before this movie. She appeared in the 1970 movie Tomorrow, a technology fiction musical that pre-dated her initial chart achievement with 1971’s “If Not for You”.
The solid with Newton-John and 3 male leads in an try by way of Don Kirshner to create any other Monkees, but the film become in no way released commercially which led Newton-John to call for a display screen check for Grease to avoid any other profession setback. The display screen take a look at became done with the force-in movie scene.
Henry Winkler turned into as soon as considered for a lead in the film, however he turned down the function due to worry of being typecast.
Adult film celebrity Harry Reems became firstly signed to play Coach Calhoun; however, executives at Paramount nixed the concept due to Reems’ previous paintings in grownup movies & the producers cast Sid Caesar as an alternative.
Sid Caesar became one of several veterans of Fifties tv (Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman) to be forged in helping roles.
Randal Kleiser directed John Travolta (who requested him for “Grease”) and Kelly Ward in the TV movie “The Boy inside the Plastic Bubble” two years previous to making the film.Additionally, he had previously labored (as a further) along Frankie Avalon in 1966’s Fireball 500.Filming Locations
The establishing seashore scene changed into shot at Malibu’s Leo Carrillo State Beach, making an express connection with From Here to Eternity.
The exterior Rydell High School scenes (inclusive of the basketball, baseball and tune segments) had been shot at Venice High School in Venice, California whilst the interiors, (including the high college dance) had been filmed at Huntington Park High School.
The sleepover scene was shot at a personal house in East Hollywood.
The Paramount Pictures studio lot was the area of the scenes that contain Frosty Palace and the musical numbers “Greased Lightning” and “Beauty School Dropout”. The power-in film scenes were shot at the Burbank Pickwick Drive-In (it became closed and torn down in 1989 and a shopping center took its region).
The race turned into filmed on the Los Angeles River, among the First and Seventh Street Bridges wherein many different films had been shot. The very last scene wherein the carnival passed off used John Marshall High School. Due to price range cuts, a brief scene turned into filmed at Hazard Park (Los Angeles, California)Post-Production
The scenes within the Frosty Palace incorporate obvious blurring of numerous Coca-Cola symptoms. Prior to the film’s launch, the manufacturer Allan Carr had made a product-placement deal with Coca-Cola’s most important competitor Pepsi (as an instance, a Pepsi emblem may be seen within the lively starting collection).
