Greaseis the word, and it still is the word.
Keep reading for more secrets behind the making of the movie.
This is the untold truth ofGrease.
Even so, the creators ofGreasewere hit with some pretty interesting ideas when trying to sell their play.
The first idea they were pitched?
“They wanted to do it as a full-length animated feature,” writer Jim Jacobs toldBehind the Music.
Fortunately, one movie producer snatched it up and created the blockbuster we know and love today.
And honestly, it was a pretty great marketing move.
Just weeks after “You’re the One That I Want” was released, it became no.
1 on pop charts across the country.
The movie’s director, Randal Kleiser, was initially surprised by this.
It seems America wanted to see a movie musical after all!
“I was worried I was too old,” she toldSunday Night’s True Stories.
However, thoughGreasecenters around high schoolers, none of the main actors were even close to acting their age.
“High school kids could not havecrow’s-feet,” he toldVanity Fair.
“It was like high school,” she toldThe Morning Call.
He was first a part of the Broadway musical’s national tour.
However, he had quite a run before making it.
“I don’t know if the zipper was gone or it wasn’t there.
Could have been worse, right?
When she first walked onto set in the outfit, she said her castmates were stunned.
Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie, reportedly crushed hard on Olivia Newton-John while shooting the classic film.
However, during a randomGreasecast party, Conaway met the woman he would eventually marry.
Turns out, it was Newton-John’s older sister, Rona, who happened to be visiting from England.
“I liked him straightaway,” she admitted.
“She’d tease and say, ‘That’s the stud.’
She made him sound pretty dangerous.
I almost fainted at the party when he turned out to be this polite, clean-cut boy.”
Conaway and Newton-John later married two years afterGreasehit theaters.
Unfortunately, the couple ended up divorcing after five years of marriage (viaThe Morning Call).
“The Fonz,” on the television showHappy Days.
“Now, I can danceGrease, but I can’t singGrease,” Winkler told theRachael Ray Show.
“So I thought, ‘You know what?
I just played The Fonz for ten years, I’m going to say no.'”
“One of the great decisions of my life,” hetoldRachael Ray.
“Because John Travolta, who really deserved it, he said yes.”
And we are glad that he did!
After seeing theStar WarsstarCarrie Fisherin action, Kleiser thought she would be the perfect choice for the character Sandy.
“And I did not want to mess it up by doing another movie that wasn’t good.”
John Travolta, however, knew she was meant for the role.
But Newton-John wanted to see how she would do on camera before officially accepting the part.
Fortunately, the two had chemistry on camera, so she signed on to the film.
The only thing Newton-John couldn’t get down was an American accent.
“Greasewas the perfect storm when the right casting met an established Broadway hit.
The new music that we added helped a lot, too,” director Randal Kleiser toldXecutives.
“Many of the new songs became hits on the radio the summer the movie came out.”
The creators were reportedly banned from the set of theGreasemovie altogether.
This was our baby.”
This Grease song was nominated for an Oscar
What is Olivia Newton-John’s favorite tune fromGrease?
It was the only song from the film to be nominated for an Oscar.
When the song received an Academy Award nomination, Farrar admitted he was shocked.
Her other song was the iconic “You’re the One that I Want.”
Because of him, the scene almost didn’t even happen.
It turned out that he was afraid of heights.
“After the second take, I said to Randal [the director], ‘You got to cut.
I can’t do this,'” he admitted toVanity Fair.
The director knew he had to have this angelic scene, so he improvised.
And maybe this pop icon should have seen it coming all along.
Even the Broadway show has continued to thrive.
There’s just something about it.
And we’re glad they do!
So what does Newton-John think became of Danny and Sandy?
“To be honest, I don’t like answering that question,” she toldThe Morning Call.
“I don’t like to take them too far beyond the end of the movie.
