{"id":59381,"date":"2025-08-05T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:06:10","slug":"didi-conn-grease-star-seen-in-rare-public-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59381\/","title":{"rendered":"Didi Conn, Grease Star, Seen in Rare Public Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fated pairing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_travolta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Travolta<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/olivia_newton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olivia Newton-John<\/a> wasn&#8217;t\u00a0always a given when it came to casting the roles originated on Broadway in 1972 by Barry Bostwick and Carole Demas.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Ronstadt and Marie Osmond\u00a0were among the names\u00a0suggested to play Sandy, Travolta recalled to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=geDjyPGPous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a>, &#8220;and I said, &#8216;They&#8217;re wonderful, but every guy in the world wants Olivia Newton-John as their girlfriend.&#8217; And I knew that &#8217;cause I felt the same way&#8230;And I said, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t see this, you guys are nuts.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/carrie_fisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carrie Fisher<\/a>,\u00a0Bye Bye Birdie\u00a0star\u00a0Ann-Margret\u00a0and\u00a0The Partridge Family&#8217;s Susan Dey\u00a0were also on the list of possible Sandys.<\/p>\n<p>When producer\u00a0Allan Carr\u00a0raised the idea of Newton-John, she didn&#8217;t immediately say yes. (But when she did, Sandy was rewritten to be Australian.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very anxious about making another film, because my music career was going well,&#8221;\u00a0the &#8220;Physical&#8221; singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/01\/grease-movie-musical-john-travolta-olivia-newton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recalled to <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/01\/grease-movie-musical-john-travolta-olivia-newton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0&#8220;and I did not want to mess it up by doing another movie that wasn&#8217;t good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fated pairing of John Travolta\u00a0and Olivia Newton-John wasn&#8217;t\u00a0always a given when it came to casting the roles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-59381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}