John Travolta, who performed the tole of ‘bad boy greaser’ Danny within the 1978 musical Grease, took to social media to pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John who handed away after a battle with metastatic breast most cancers on Monday 8 August.
Newton-John’s passing was confirmed by her husband, John Easterling, who wrote on Facebook:
“Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
The British-Australian entertainer, whose profession spanned greater than 5 many years, devoted a lot of her time to charities after she was identified with breast most cancers in 1992.
John Travolta pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John: ‘Yours from the moment I saw you’
The Grease co-stars — who reunited years later within the 1983 movie Two of a Kind — remained shut buddies for 44 years.
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better,” the 68-year-old Travolta wrote in his Instagram tribute put up.
“Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”
‘Grease’: Instant fame and success
Newton-John and Travolta headlined Grease, delivering two of their most iconic movie performances. Newton-John performed the prim and correct Sandy, who falls in love with unhealthy boy greaser Danny, performed by Travolta.
The hit musical, directed by Randal Kleiser, turned the highest-grossing movie of the 12 months — grossing $366 million (about R6 billion) on the worldwide field workplace — and the highest-grossing film musical of all time to that time.
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Watch: Newton-John and Travolta carry out ‘You’re the One That I Want’
The soundtrack was additionally a smash hit, promoting greater than 28 million copies worldwide and scoring a No 1 hit for Newton-John and Travolta with the duet You’re the One That I Want.
The movie’s soundtrack was the second largest album of 1978 within the United States, trailing solely the soundtrack to Travolta’s hip-swaying Saturday Night Fever.
According to Variety, the only Hopelessly Devoted to You, carried out by Newton-John, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song.
‘How could you say no to John Travolta?’
In her autobiography, Don’t Stop Believin’, the actress mentioned she felt too outdated at 28 to play a highschool scholar. Two of her prior movies flopped on the field workplace, however when Newton-John met Travolta, she agreed to a display screen take a look at.
“In person, John Travolta radiates pure joy and love. That day, he greeted me with a big hug like we were already lifelong friends. How could you say no to John Travolta?” she writes, per The Sunday Post.
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Lifelong buddies groove to ‘Grease’
At a fortieth anniversary screening for Grease in 2018, the duo recreated their well-known strikes on the purple carpet.
“We rehearsed so much in the three week period to get it right,” Travolta told Variety at the time about rehearsing for the movie with Newton-John.
“And you can see from the energy on that film, we were so anxious to get it right that I think everything — it was like going to school. Every day there was a regimen: Song, dance, recording, rehearsing scenes, rewriting scenes. It was a big myriad of events.”