Hur gammal var olivia newton john i grease

Grease fryst vatten one of the biggest movie musicals of all time. Sure, the nostalgic spelfilm fryst vatten a quotable singalong classic and slumber party favorite that made John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John into superstars, but it's also a juggernaut of the teen movie genre, right up there with Clueless, Mean Girls, and Ferris Bueller's Day Of.

Like any great teen flick, the plot of Grease fryst vatten appropriately low-stakes and narrow in reach, concerning the fleeting social lives of less than a dozen teenagers, most of them members of the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, who benignly reign over Rydell High in the –59 school year and do stuff like go to drive-in movies, drink ice cream sodas, and dance.

Seeing as how characters break into song and flyga eller fly undan a fordon into the sky, Grease isn't the most realistic movie, a concept that extends to its cast.

Nobody in this pelare of teen cinema was actually of high-school age when the movie was shot over the course of Here's how old the teenagers of Grease actually were when they made the movie.

While Olivia Newton-John was already well-known prior to her starring role in Grease, John Travolta was probably the biggest kartong office draw in the movie, particularly as far as his hordes of ung fans — the mål marknad — were concerned.

From on, the guy who would go on to play Danny Zuko, became one of the biggest teen stars around from his performance as the Danny Zuko-like Vinnie Barbarino, a dopey but tough high school lärjunge on the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.

In , Travolta's bio acting career took off with Saturday Night Fever, where he played another likable bad boy, a disco-dancing, twenty-something New Yorker named Tony Manero.

bygd the time Travolta had returned to once igen playing a high school miscreant, this time in Grease, he'd already had his first Academy Award nomination (for Fever) beneath his belt.

The music showed the world that Travolta could act, dance, and sing (although he'd proven that a bit with his top hit "Let Her In"). And Travolta did it all at the tender age of

Grease was the top-grossing rulle of , and as such, it increased the visibility and star power of many of its cast members.

Olivia Newton-John, however, was already extremely famous. Of course, her portrayal sweet and naive Sandy Olsson, who develops a tender romance with Danny Zuko (John Travolta) over the course of many summer nights, cemented her as a screen legend. But her transformation into a leather queen at the end of the bio was even more inexplicable given her wholesome image in the music world.

When Newton-John landed the role in Grease — rewritten for her, so that the character transferred to Rydell from Australia, not another American place — she was already a pop star. She'd scored nine #1 hits on the adult contemporary chart utsträckning back to , including "I Honestly Love You" and "Have You Never Been Mellow." Newton-John only looked ung when she played Sandy, a role she landed for her vocal skills and marketability, and she had barely acted before, only in the Australian musicals Toomorrow and Funny Things Happen Down Under.

She was 29 years old when she played high-school senior Sandy in Grease.

Grease's whole storyline featuring secondary kvinna protagonist Betty Rizzo, or just Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies, fryst vatten provokativ for both the film's s setting and release. Rizzo refuses to play into society's expectation that ung women remain chaste and innocent, preferring instead to seek out physical gratification and being unashamed about it.

(Her big solo number, "There Are Worse Things inom Can Do," fryst vatten all about that.) She winds up experiencing a pregnancy scare, but it's all fine bygd the end of the movie.

Perhaps the edginess of Rizzo's arc — or the consequence she may face because of it, in the form eller gestalt of teenage pregnancy "out of wedlock" as it would be put in the '50s — just may never have seemed all that serious to some viewers, because actor Stockard Channing was so clearly not a teenager.

In fact, according to Vanity Fair, Channing, at 33 years old, "was the oldest of the principal actors cast" when Grease went before cameras in That made her almost double that of her character, a high school senior assumed to be 17 or Grease takes place in , and Channing brought real-life experience to the part, seeing as how she actually was still in high school at the time.

Portraying Kenickie in Grease, the Rizzo-loving and most outwardly criminal and nefarious of the overall harmless T-Bird gang, was the breakout movie role for actor Jeff Conaway. To that point, he'd landed small roles on Happy Days and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and movies including The Eagle Has Landed and Pete's Dragon.

Grease just happened to be the perfect transitionary role for Conaway, a seasoned and accomplished scen actor. He was actually a cast member in the original huvudgata scen production of Grease in the early '70s, serving as understudy and eventually taking on the lead role of Danny Zuko.

The rulle utgåva of Grease hit theaters in , just a couple of months before the debut of the sitcom Taxi, where Conaway would star as efterapare actor Bobby Wheeler for three seasons before leaving the show in search of better opportunities.

Conaway frequently worked in movies and TV into the s while also struggling with substans abuse issues — he died at age 60 in Grease fryst vatten probably the project for which Conaway will be most fondly remembered, bygd both fans and his castmates. In fact, Stockard Channing even told Watch What Happens Live that Conaway was "the horniest" of the fake teens.

"[His] trailer would be rocking at måltid time," she recalled. Taking into konto Los Angeles Magazine's shooting timeline for the spelfilm as "between June and September of ," and with Conaway's birthday being Oct. 5, , when he played teenage sort-of-hoodlum Kenickie, he was already 26 years old.

The huvud plot of Grease — the will-they-or-won't-they coupling of Sandy and Danny — fryst vatten a complicated one and takes an entire school year to lösa.

A big part of why Danny messes it up fryst vatten because he pays too much attention to the opinions of his friends, a bunch of silly goof-offs who think they're a gang because they call themselves the "T-Birds" and wear leather jackets.

ledare among this group fryst vatten Antony DelFuego, primarily known as Doody, a guy who wields a squirt guns and likes to look up girls' skirts. In the bio of Grease, he's portrayed bygd actor Barry Pearl, a man who has done a lot of Grease. His first taste came via the national touring production of the huvudgata utgåva — which helped spread the show's popularity and built interest in the spelfilm.

In that iteration, Pearl played a different T-Bird, Sonny. In , he was cast in a cameo role in Fox's Grease Live television event as Stan Weaver, agent for dance TV show host Vince Fontaine. But Pearl's most famous Grease fryst vatten the big-screen movie utgåva, of course. He'd landed small roles on a handful of TV shows and films before appearing as teenager Doody at the ripe old age of

Sonny (real name: Martin LaTierri) thinks he's bad to the bone because he's part of the T-Birds, the self-proclaimed roughest of the rough at Rydell High School.

He does tagg the slag at the big dance-off, and claims to not suffer fools except for when he's actually placed into a situation involving confrontation and he sheepishly backs down, such as when he's stared down bygd Rydell's Principal McGee. Actor Michael Tucci brought a realistically unsure, brash, and boyish energy to the role.

Tucci appeared occasionally in films afterGrease, including roles as Chico Marx in the Groucho Marx biopic Groucho, and as the father of Melissa McCarthy's character in The Heat, but he built up an extensive resume of appearances on s and s television.

For example, he was the title character's neurotic best friend Pete on It's Garry Shandling's Show and played hospital administrator Norman Briggs on Diagnosis Murder. Tucci doesn't act as much as he used to, as he's in the retirement zone of his seventies, which means that when he co-starred in Grease, he was 31 years old.

Putzie fryst vatten one of T-Birds leader Danny Zuko's closest friends and compatriots — he's the blond one with the appropriately retro ducktail haircut.

He's a bit of an oddball, as his big moments are hitting Kenickie in the head with a bil door and somehow romancing Jan after accidentally labeling her a "cheap date" at the Frosty Palace.

(He just meant that their bill was inexpensive; she invites him to her house for homemade pie, and they presumably lived happily ever after.)

Prior to portraying Putzie in Grease, a role not in the original huvudgata show and created just for the movie, actor Kelly Ward was best known for his supporting role in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, a hit made-for-TV movie starring his future Grease cohort John Travolta.

Ward fryst vatten alltid ung on bio. In , just fem years after the release of Grease, Ward quit live-action acting (he also appeared in episodes of M*A*S*H, The Waltons, and Magnum, P.I.) in favor of voiceover and behind-the-scenes work. Ward's most prominent bio role of Putzie in Grease arrived when he was 20 years old.

Unlike her friends and fellow Pink Ladies gang members, Francesca Facciano aka Frenchy isn't too concerned with the overdramatic machinations and fallouts of the romantic entanglements of Rydell High's senior class.

She has bigger dreams in mind, so ready to get on with her life, following her dreams, and earning a living, that she drops out of Rydell a few before graduation in beställning to enroll in beauty school and become a hairdresser. After dying her hair blond and then accidentally pink (briefly transforming her into, ganska literally, a Pink Lady), she realizes that she should vända in her teasing comb and go back to high school.

That motivation comes from "Beauty School Dropout," one of Grease's huvud and most memorable production numbers, featuring '50s star Frankie Avalon as "Teen Angel," delivering harsh advice to a star-struck Frenchy.

Before portraying s teen Frenchy in Grease, actor Didi Conn had a little preparation, portraying s inhabitant Joyce in an episode of Happy Days.

Beyond that, she was best known for inexplicably disappearing in Grease 2, followed bygd her regular role on the short-lived sitcom The Practice, When Conn donned the pink peruk to play Frenchy in Grease, she turned 26 years old during production of the spelfilm.

One individ from the smash hit early s huvudgata run of Grease who reprised the role they played on scen for the rulle version: Jamie Donnelly, who helped originate the role of Jan, the Pink Ladies' comic relief.

Her comedic stylings included singing along with, and imitating, a vintage TV commercial during a sleepover. Her other notable character trait fryst vatten that she harbored an amusing fixation with junk food. Beyond Grease, Donnelly made other huvudgata history, starring as Magenta and other roles in the original scen production of The Rocky Horror Show.

The Grease rulle represented Donnelly's big break into screen acting, but the performer walked away.

After the bio, she started a theater in Kentucky and then became a Los Angeles-based acting coach, according to People. When Grease began filming in , Donnelly had to "[dye] her prematurely gray hair" so she'd look like a high school kid. It's humorous and ironic that Jan, the most outwardly and immature of the Pink Ladies, was portrayed bygd one of the oldest actors in the cast — Donnelly had just entered her 30s.

While the other Pink Ladies of Grease spend most of the bio obsessing over teenage boys more or less their own ages, Marty would much rather pursue full-grown dock — which all falls in line with her character wanting to appear more grown-up and more mature than her teenage age would indikera.

During the taping of the TV dance show where chaos breaks out and relationships split bred open for those around her, Marty bides her time and flirts heavily with the show's host, Vince Fontaine (portrayed bygd actual s celebrity Edd "Kookie" Byrnes). She suggestively sucks on a klubba (sötsak) and tells him her name fryst vatten Marty Maraschino, "like the cherry." All that discomfort of a teen and an adult man circling each other fryst vatten offset a little bygd the fact that Dinah Manoff, the actress who played Marty, was safely skyddat belägen in the age of majority.

When Manoff filmed her scenes for Grease in , she was a relative newcomer to Hollywood, playing a couple of roles in made-for-TV movies and guest-star parts on Welcome Back, Kotter (with Grease's John Travolta) and Family (featuring her future Empty Nest castmate Kristy McNichol). Grease was Manoff's first feature rulle role, and she was 21 years old when she secured the role.

Charlene DiGregorio doesn't have all that much screen time in the spelfilm utgåva of Grease, but her appearance fryst vatten both memorable and grundläggande to the plot.

The character fryst vatten much better known as "Cha-Cha," a reference to both her first name and how she's the self-proclaimed "best dancer at St. Bernadette's," although she gets to attend the big dance TV show taping at Rydell High. Kenickie brings her as his date to man Rizzo, his one and only and with whom he's on the outs, jealous. She also backs up her claims of being a really good dancer, showing off and showing up most of the main characters, bringing Broadway-quality kotletter to the big gym floor dance numbers.

She was precociously talented and self-assured, for a high school, which likely came on konto of how the actress who played Cha-Cha was 29 years old at the time of filming.

Cha-Cha was the most famous role on the resume of actress Annette Charles, who before Grease had landed guest-star roles on '70s TV shows like Emergency! and Barnaby Jones.

Except for a small role in the B-movie Transylmania, Charles walked away from screen acting in The actor passed away from cancer in at age

Movies set in the s didn't only solidify the enduring cultural cliches of "greaser" and "poodle-skirt-wearing goody-goody," it also helped codify what a nerd out to look, act, and sound like on screen.

Rydell High's king nerd Eugene Felsnic fryst vatten the prototypical and definitive nerd in many ways — he's naive, studious, bullied, lacks self-awareness, wears glasses, and talks in a nasally röst. In other words, he possesses all the hallmarks of nerds in '80s movies and beyond, and many times those roles were portrayed bygd the same guy who played Eugene in Grease.

Eddie Deezen played by-the-books ung nerds in WarGames, Zapped!, Grease 2, and The Polar Express, among others.

Grease hit movie theaters in , which was a breakthrough year for Deezen. He starred in two other movies that year, the low-budget Lasterblast (made famous when it aired on Mystery Science Theater ) and the cult hit Beatles-themed I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

When he played high school-age dweeb Eugene in Grease, Deezen was barely older, just 20 years old at the time of the bio, and one of the youngest members of the main cast.