Grease [1978] (1 disc)

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• Henry Winkler, who became a sensation as "Fonzie" on [Happy Days], was considered for the role of Danny Zuko. However, he turned down the role for fear of being typecast.
• ^[?] Susan Dey and Deborah Raffin were the first choices for the role of Sandy (Dey declined the role after her manager advised against it). ^[?] Marie Osmond later claimed on [Larry King Live] that she had been also been offered the role but declined "on moral grounds" though she later admitted this to be untrue.
• Due to a zipper breaking, Olivia Newton-John had to be sewn into the trousers she wears in the last sequence (the carnival at Rydell).
• Jeff Conaway (6' 1.5" (1.87 m)) had to walk slightly stooped so that John Travolta (6' 2" (1.88 m)) would appear taller.
• Set in high school, most of the principal cast were way past their teenage years. When filming began in June 1977, John Travolta was 23, Olivia Newton-John was 28, Stockard Channing was 33, Jeff Conaway was 26, Barry Pearl was 27, Michael Tucci was 31, Kelly Ward was 20, Didi Conn was 25; Jamie Donnelly was 30, and ^[?] Annette Charles was 29. Only Dinah Manoff, Lorenzo Lamas, and Eddie Deezen, all 19, were still teenagers.
• Carrie Fisher was considered for the role of Rizzo.
• For a time, it was the third highest-grossing movie of all time behind only Jaws and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.
• Randal Kleiser hated the opening title song, {Grease} (he thought that the cynical lyrics and disco beat were inappropriate for a film set in the 1950s).
• Choreographer ^[?] Patricia Birch worked with Sha-Na-Na to ensure that the tempo of the dance contest would be correct. She appears, uncredited, as one of the dancers during the contest.
• Rizzo's hickeys were real. Stockard Channing said in an interview that Jeff Conaway insisted on applying them himself.