

Two of Newton-John’s duets with Travolta, “You’re the One That I Want” and “Summer Nights,” were also widely praised, with the former being one of the best-selling singles of all time. Stockard Channing (Rizzo) Grease 's whole storyline featuring secondary female protagonist Betty Rizzo, or just Rizzo. Olivia Newton-John earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Sandy, and one of the songs that Sandy sings in Grease, “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” which was written by John Farrar, earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. She was 29 years old when she played high-school senior Sandy in Grease. The two cross paths again when Sandy starts attending Danny’s school, resulting in their relationship evolving into something deeper (decades later, Olivia Newton-John shared her take on that wild theory about Grease’s ending). However, it was her role as Sandy Olsson in 1978’s Grease that propelled her popularity especially far.Īdapted from the same-named musical that launched in 1971, Grease, which can be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription, told the story of Sandy, a transfer student from Australia, striking up a summer romance with greaser Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta. 'So I was kind of in a complete zombie state to begin with. Saturday Night Fever John Travolta,' he recalled. 'I was 19, it was only the third thing I'd ever done, and I was on the Paramount lot meeting my childhood crush Olivia Newton-John and Mr.


The costars continued to remain close in the years that followed the movies release. She was an actress, singer, and director who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John met through their roles as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson in 'Grease,' but their real-life friendship went far beyond the hit 1978 musical film. He became an actor in 1972 and followed in his mother’s footsteps.
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According to an unnamed source close to the actress:Īfter a 30-year cancer journey, she lost her battle to metastatic breast cancer.īorn on September 26, 1948, Olivia Newton-John first hit the entertainment scene as a singer, with some of her early hits including her cover of Bob Dylan’s “If Not For You,” “Let Me Be There” and “Have You Ever Been Mellow.” Prior to Grease, Newton-John appeared in the Australian-New Zealand movie Funny Things Happen Down Under and the British sci-fi movie Toomorrow, and she also performed as herself in various TV specials and Eurovision Song Contest. In 2018, Lamas opened up about his time on Grease in an interview with Studio 10. John Travolta was born on 18 February 1954 (age 68 as of 2022) in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. While no official cause of death was provided, Newton had been dealing with breast cancer on and off for three decades, which included it having gone into remission for a long time, but returning in 2017. Olivia Newton-John’s husband, John Easterling, informed TMZ that his wife “died peacefully at her ranch in Southern California” on Monday morning, surrounded by friends and family.
