Thunder Road was a popular place for the locals to drag-race. However, the police knew that, and occasionally staked the location out, nabbing the illegal racers. It was there that Kenickie and Leo Balmudo were to face off, "Race for Pinks" (Winner gets the other's car).
On race day, Kenickie is concussed by his own car door, so Danny takes the wheel, winning the race after Leo spins out. Sandy, watching from afar and rejoicing for Danny's victory, concludes she still loves him and enlists Frenchy's help in changing her attitude and looks to impress him.
The Grease girls, who played memorable best buds and cousins Sandy and Frenchy in the 1978 classic, joined one another on stage at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino during Newton-John's show.
The car racing sequence, where Sandy decides she doesn't want to be Sandra Dee any more, is along the concrete spillways of the Los Angeles River between the First and Seventh Street Bridges, east of downtown, a location used in fifties sci-fi classic Them! and more recently in S.W.A.T..
Grease (1978) - Thunder Road Race Scene (10/10) | Movieclips
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As a result, Danny has to race in Kenickie's place. Sandy sits on the hill watching the neck-and-neck race, which Danny manages to win. While she is happy to see Danny win, she has misgivings about her own image, reflected in the song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)".
Doody – The youngest member; generally foolish, and gullible. Sonny – An obnoxious yet tricky member of the T-Birds; funny Italian-American; "Wise Guy". the nickname "Rump".
In Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies, it is revealed that main character Jane's younger sister is actually Frenchy, one of the main characters of Grease.
Four years before Frenchy, Rizzo and Sandy ever donned their own pink jackets, a group of friends at Rydell High leaned into their image of “bad girls,” called themselves the Pink Ladies and created a girl gang.
Grease 2 is often regarded as one of the worst sequels in movie history; it's pointless, a complete copy of the original (minus all the good parts), and the songs are forgettable for the most part.
Danny loves Sandy and isn't happy when he dismisses her in front of his friends. It's also worth noting that ESTPs care a lot about image and for ISFJs it's not that important. This also leads to many tensions in their relationship.
After playing Rizzo in Grease, Channing played First Lady Abbey Bartlet in The West Wing for seven years, as well as racking up TV credits in Batman Beyond, Out Of Practice and, recently, The Good Wife.
' Henry Winkler says fears of being typecast prompted him to turn down the lead role in 1978's "Grease." "I was dumb," Winkler told People magazine in this week's issue.
After being raised by wolves, Lucan strikes out on his own in search of his identity. In 1977, at the age of 33, Channing was cast for the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease.
Audiences were first introduced to the iconic girl group, the Pink Ladies, in the 1978 musical "Grease." The group consisted of Betty Rizzo, Marty Maraschino, Frenchie and Jan, with Sandy joining them at the start of the movie. Here's a look back at the original Pink Ladies.
At the age of 18, Rizzo was the leader of the Pink Ladies which consisted of her, Frenchy, Marty and Jan. She was also dating T-Birds member Kenickie. Frenchy introduces her new friend Sandy Olsson to the group who Rizzo is instantly cold and sarcastic towards.
Kelly Ward brought the youngest member of the T-Birds, Putzie, to life in a role specifically created for the film. Grease wasn't his first time working with costar John Travolta, as the two worked together on 1976's made-for-television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John met through their roles as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson in "Grease," but their real-life friendship went far beyond the hit 1978 musical film. The costars continued to remain close in the years that followed the movie's release.
The character in Grease isn't named Sandra Dee. Her name is Sandy Dumbrowski in the stage version and Sandy Olsson on the movie. Rizzo just nicknames her “Sandra Dee” because her innocent, clean-cut personality resembles the actress's onscreen persona in the 50s.
Smoking was prevalent throughout the film (these are T-Birds and Pink Ladies, after all), and cigarettes play into other key scenes. Thus, no cigarettes were removed in the film itself.
They would call it Grease, an homage to the era's greasy hair, greasy engines, and greasy food. The gritty, profanity-laced, raunchy story of teenage attitude—for which Jacobs and Casey collaborated on the book, the lyrics, and the music—opened on February 5, 1971, in a former trolley barn in Chicago.
Also, in the 1978 film Grease, the characters mention racing for "pink slips, ownership papers". In the United Kingdom, there is not an equivalent of a vehicle title. Instead, there is a document known as the 'vehicle registration document', and is issued by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
