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GREASE

Air Date/Released Friday, June 16, 1978
Station/Studio Paramount Pictures

It's 1959, and on summer vacation at the California beach, Danny Zuko and Austrailian Sandy Olsen fall in love. Sandy starts the new school year as an exchange student at Rydell High, and is surprised to see that this is Danny's school. Zuko is leader of the leather-jacketed T-Birds, while good girl Sandy has joined the Pink Ladies. In totally different social circles, can the two lovers reignite their passion, or are they destined to remain apart?

At the football pep rally, three of the T-Birds, Doody, Sonny, and Putzie clown around by imitating the Stooges' slapstick moves. Per actor Barry Pearl ('Doody'), he put the Stooge tribute together on the set; it was not a carryover bit from the stage version.


More Stooge-connections:
- Costars Michael Tucci (Sonny) and Barry Pearl (Doody) are also Stooges fans, and played Moe & Larry at the Stooges' 1983 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony; on a 1981 episode of the CBS drama JESSICA NOVAK, they played Moe & Larry impersonators.
- Costar Eddie Deezen (Eugene Felnic) is a huge Three Stooges fan, has posted blogs on them, and they're frequently a topic on his Facebook page

Cast: John Travolta (Danny Zuko), Olivia Newton-John (Sandy Olsen), Stockard Channing (Betty Rizzo), Jeff Conaway (Kenickie), Barry Pearl (Doody), Michael Tucci (Sonny), Kelly Ward (Putzie), Didi Conn (Frenchy), Jamie Donnelly (Jan), Dinah Manoff (Marty Maraschino), Eve Arden (Principal McGee), Frankie Avalon (The Teen Angel), Joan Blondell (Vi), Edd Byrnes (Vince Fontaine), Sid Caesar (Coach Calhoun), Alice Ghostley (Mrs. Murdock), Dody Goodman (Blanche), Sha-Na-Na [Lennie Baker, Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman, Johnny Contardo, Frederick 'Dennis' Greene, Jocko Marcellino, 'Screamin' Scott' Simon, Donald 'Donny' York] (Johnny Casino & The Gamblers), Susan Buckner (Patty Simcox), Lorenzo Lamas (Tom Chisum), Fannie Flagg (Nurse Wilkins), Dick Patterson (Mr. Rudie), Eddie Deezen (Eugene Felnic), Darrell Zwerling (Mr. Lynch), Ellen Travolta (Waitress), Annette Charles (Cha Cha DiGregorio), Dennis Stewart (Leo, Scorpions member), Michael Biehn (Mike, school athlete), Tod Burton (Baseball catcher), Carole Demas (Girl fixing hair in mirror at drive-in), J. Andrew Kenny (Wrestler), John Mooney (Cameraman), Lora Marie Oberhofer Taylor (Girl in quad on the first day of school (uncredited), Barbi Alison, Helena Andreyko, Jennifer Buchanan, Carol Culver, Cindy DeVore, Deborah Fishman, Antonia Franceschi, Sandra Gray, Mimi Lieber, Judy Susman, Dennis Daniels, Larry Dusich, John Robert Garrett, Daniel Levans, Sean Moran, Greg Rosatti, Andy Roth, Lou Spadaccini, Andy Tennant, Richard Weisman, Paula Beyers, Greg Bradford, Donna Felix, Vinny Genna, Kristine Greco, Bob Quinn, Wendie Jo Sperber (Dancers)

Crew: Randal Kleiser (Director), Allan Carr (Producer, Adaptation), Bronte Woodard (Screenplay), Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey (Musical), Robert Stigwood, Neil A. Machlis (Producers), Bill Butler (Director of Photography), John F. Burnett (Film Editor)
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