Grease was the highest-grossing film of the year of its release and its soundtrack, which is also the soundtrack of an entire generation, remained at the top of the charts for weeks.
Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!” The two appeared in public for the last time in December 2019, dressed as their characters from Grease. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. The actress maintained a lifelong friendship with Travolta, who posted a message mourning her death on social media on Monday: “My dearest Olivia, you made our lives so much better. The film script was changed slightly to account for the singer’s Australian accent. He convinced me,” confessed Newton-John in an interview conducted in early 2019. “I couldn’t have done the film if I hadn’t met John, because I wasn’t sure about doing it.
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She wasn’t sure she wanted to be an actress and also felt that, at 28 years of age, she wasn’t the best fit for a high school student.įinally, after several screen tests and at the insistence of Travolta, who was 23 at the time, but already a star thanks to the movie Saturday Night Fever, she accepted. Newton-John was initially reluctant to accept the role that would make her career. Her role as Sandy catapulted her to fame with songs such as You’re the One that I Want, Summer Nights and Hopelessly Devoted to You. The British-Australian actress is known worldwide for starring in the 1978 musical Grease, alongside John Travolta. She came fourth, while ABBA won the contest with the song Waterloo. Newton-John represented the United Kingdom at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song Long Live Love, chosen by popular vote among six options. Olivia Newton-John, during a concert in Hong Kong, in August 2000. The title paid tribute to a Bob Dylan song that had also been recorded by George Harrison. After separating (he had to return to Australia when his visa expired), she released her first album in 1971, If Not for You. While living in England, the singer was briefly performed with Pat Carroll. At the age of 17, she won a talent contest on Australian television, which saw her move to the United Kingdom, where at 18 she recorded her first single. She started out very young in the world of music, performing first with a group of schoolmates and then as a solo singer. She was born in Cambridge, England, in 1948, and when she was only five years old, her family moved to Melbourne in Australia, where her father worked as a German teacher. A post shared by Olivia Newton-John Newton-John was the granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born, a Jew exiled to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany. Don’t miss a thing by downloading Apple News here and following Prevention. Like what you just read? You’ll love our magazine! Go here to subscribe. It just took a lot of time and sorting and it started out really that I was just going to auction off the Grease jacket and pants for my cancer wellness center in Australia. “It took quite a few months to weed through boxes and storage containers. “I’ve realized over the years, especially when you go through stuff, that stuff isn’t what’s important,” she told Reuters. Newton-John’s Pink Ladies jacket also notably sold for $50,000, per CNN, and a poster signed by the Grease cast went for $64,000. “Yes, it was always my dream to do that, so yes!” she says. “This is the most beautiful present, but mainly it’s your heart that I’m grateful for.” The buyer asks her if she’ll display it in her cancer center.
“You’re the best, you’re the best! I’m so grateful,” Newton-John says after finally opening the gift and holding the jacket tight. When she realizes what’s happening, her hand covers her face and she embraces him. In the video, Newton-John stands with her eyes closed, and when she opens them, an anonymous man (his face is blurred out by request) stands behind her with a bright pink gift box. Julien’s Auctions, the auction house that hosted the event, captured the surprise moment and shared it on social media. Roughly a month later, the buyer gave it back. In November, she sold the original black leather jacket she wore as Sandy in Greaseat a charity auction for $243,200.
Olivia Newton-John may have just received the most memorable gift of her life. The auction sold over 500 pieces from Newton-John’s private collection and raised $2.4 million for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Center in Australia.“This jacket belongs to you and the collective soul of those who love you,” he said. The anonymous buyer decided to give it back, and the moment was captured on video.In November, Olivia Newton-John sold the original black leather jacket she wore as Sandy in Grease at a charity auction for $243,200.
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