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Grease was released in the US on VHS by Paramount Home Video in 1979, 1982, 1989, 1992 and 1994; the last VHS release was on June 23, 1998, and was titled the 20th Anniversary Edition following a theatrical re-release that March. On September 24, 2002, it was released on DVD for the first time.
- "Grease" is never said in the script. Only the word greased (with a "d") is sung in the song “Greased Lightnin’.”
- There is a reference to an ad from the future. As Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy is approaching Rydell High for the first time, she tells Didi Conn’s Frenchy, “I’m no stranger to heartbreak,” to which Frenchy replies, “Why?
- Rizzo has a connection to Elvis. The day they filmed the scene for “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” — a song in which Stockard Channing’s Rizzo sarcastically bellows “Elvis, Elvis, let me be; keep that pelvis far from me” — was August 16, 1977, the day Elvis Presley died.
- John Travolta's sister has a small role. John Travolta’s sister, Ellen, plays a diner waitress with a single line, “Oh, there’s Danny and Sandy,” while watching the dance on TV.
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Sep 15, 2018 · Tanya Sweeney. Sat Sep 15 2018 - 06:00. The summer of 1958, in which Grease was set, looked a beguiling cocktail of hormonally charged lindy hops, leather pants and all-round frivolity. Which is...
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- For John Travolta, Grease is a classic. “Grease is part of the American culture. It wasn’t initially, but it has embedded itself in American culture,” John told askjimmycarter.com.
- There were concerns about casting Olivia Newton-John. Director Randal Kleiser had reservations about Olivia Newton-John playing Sandy. “I remember meeting her for the first time at that party and thinking, ‘Have You Never Been Mellow?’”
- Nobody else could play Sandy. It was John’s opinion, as he shared with askjimmycarter.com, that “there was only one person on the planet that could be Sandy, and that was Olivia Newton-John, and I was hell-bent to get her in this movie.”
- Olivia worried she was too old for the film. Olivia was nervous about doing the film, telling the Telegraph, “I worried that at 29 I was too old to play a high-school girl.
Jun 16, 1978 · Grease: Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Randal Kleiser
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Grease was re-released in May 1979 in 1,248 theatres in the United States and Canada, Paramount's biggest ever saturation release at the time, and grossed $4.5 million in its opening weekend. [12] [13] During the reissue, it overtook The Godfather and became Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film of all-time. [14]
May 8, 2024 · Grease was directed by Randal Kleiser and filmed during 15 weeks in the summer of 1977 with a $6 million budget. In a 2023 article in The Guardian, actor Kelly Ward, who played T-Bird Putzie, remembered shooting the film as “a summer-long party.”
