Grease’s Film Production Wasn’t As Fun And ‘Summer Lovin’ As You’d Think

Travolta was very depressed on set due to his mourning of the death of his girlfriend Diana Hyland.

According to Travolta,“It acted as a giant distraction for me. It was probably the healthiest thing I could have done was to be in back-to-back movies, because I was very sad.”

Olivia Newton-John almost didn’t play Sandy.

Carrie Fisher, Susan Dey, Marie Osmond and Deborah Raffin were considered for the role ahead of Newton-John. Once she was in the running, she didn’t want it. According to Olivia Newton-John:  “I was very anxious about making another film because my music career was going well and I did not want to mess it up by doing another movie that wasn’t good.”

Other famous actors were at considered for the hit film were Elvis as the Teen Angel and porn star Harry Reems as Coach Calhoun.

Harry Reems and Sid Caesar as Coach Calhoun via Wikipedia
Paramount decided to keep the porn actor out of the film for publicity’s sake and the role went to Sid Caesar.

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SOURCES: (Fox News, Wikipedia, Youtube)

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