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  1. Apr 1, 2021 · John Travolta is an award-winning actor who had breakout roles in 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease.' He had a career revival with 'Pulp Fiction' and has starred in a wide range of additional ...

  2. Apr 23, 2024 · Even though John Travolta had starred in major movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever, his star-power and popularity had dropped significantly before appearing in Pulp Fiction. Travolta ...

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  3. Dec 12, 2019 · Forty-two years ago, moviegoers watched John Travolta strut down a Brooklyn sidewalk — and into movie history — to the tune of “Staying Alive.”. The disco blockbuster Saturday Night Fever ...

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  4. Nov 2, 2023 · Based on Nik Cohn's 'Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night' article, Saturday Night Fever was a critical and commercial smash hit on release in 1977, and has since come to define the grittier side of the disco era. The film earned Travolta a Best Actor nod at the Oscars, while the movie's soundtrack from the Bee Gees swept up at the Grammy Awards.

  5. Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent being in 2011.

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  7. Apr 19, 2024 · Travolta, 70, was already a star at the time of the movie’s release, thanks to hits like Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Still, he had to admit Pulp Fiction raised his profile even more.

  8. Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn.