The very first time we meet Danny and Sandy in Grease they're on the beach at the end of summer. He's being a bit rough with her, trying to kiss her against her will, and she tells him not to spoil it. He ignores her protestations and tells her it's only making it better. Not having learned his lesson, at the drive-in , when Sandy is already upset with him, Danny first tries to sneakily cop a feel while she's focused on the movie.
When she notices, he grabs her, gets on top of her much to her very vocal distress , and assures her that it's okay because nobody is watching them.
Danny is well aware of what kind of lady Sandy is, yet he still thinks he can convince her to fool around in the middle of a packed, outdoor movie theater. Screaming at him to stop doesn't work so, naturally, she resorts to violence. And we, as an audience, are supposed to feel bad for Danny as a result. Grease is still really funny in general particularly the older you get , but the little moments shared between the principal and her hapless assistant are pure gold.
Whether it's finding the schedule for last semester, instead of this year's, or going too hard with the xylophone for morning announcements, getting caught up in the typewriter wire, or crying at the end of term, they share some of the best moments in the whole movie.
And so much of their dynamic is communicated without words. Arden's IMDb page lists screen credits, while Goodman was working steadily into the early s. Their easy rapport, with McGee scolding her useless assistant while clearly harboring a huge amount of warmth for her, is really lovely and it sells what are often the slowest moments in teen movies such as this i.
Most of us will have spent many years trying to work out what Kenickie's line "Nobody's jugs are bigger than Annette's," which precedes " Summer Nights " and is part of a rather rude discussion about poor Sandy, means in Grease.
That is, if it even registered in the first place. Is it a reference to bras i. Is that even a real term for bras that people use? Is it another innuendo? Some weird '50s slang that nobody gets half a century later? The answer is actually much more interesting. The reference was placed into the movie to give some authenticity to the time period in which it's set, because Funicello would've been a cultural reference point at the time, particularly for lusty young men.
It's the first big banger of Grease , but there's one character who refuses to get caught up in the awesomeness of " Summer Nights " aside from maybe Sonny, who is mad at Danny for bragging about his prowess with the ladies.
From the outset, Rizzo is not interested in taking part in the conversations surrounding Sandy's summer romance. She tells her there's no such thing as a special guy, and tries to put her off even telling the story. When the song kicks off, she sits stiffly at the opposite end of the table from everybody else, refusing to sway along with the others while Sandy trills about Danny.
Then, she lays down on the bench, sunning herself, during her one line "cause he sounds like a drag". And finally, Rizzo purposely pushes Sandy and Patti over into a trashcan, ruining their poise and disrupting the song entirely. The idea of integrating the choreography with Rizzo's refusal to join in is a brilliant, hilarious choice that's totally fitting for her character. Rizzo might have had good reason not to take part in " Summer Nights " though.
The song may be one of the most popular and beloved songs to come from Grease , but it's also majorly problematic, particularly nowadays with everything we know about rape culture and issues of consent. One of the standout lyrics sees Kenickie asking Danny, "Did she put up a fight? The whole thing is engineered to show off how much Danny is lying about the dirtier elements of the summer fling, while Sandy coos about how romantic it all was, meaning the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But lines like "Did you get very far? How much say did Sandy have in these seaside activities anyway?! The older you get, the more you realize that Rizzo is actually the most sympathetic character in the whole movie. Grease 's Frenchie is sweet and kind, but she also drops out of high school in her final year when she could probably just wait.
Marty doesn't get enough of an arc, and Sandy, as the song goes, is a bit of a sap. Rizzo is the most layered and nuanced female character, brilliantly played by a raw and committed Stockard Channing. She's the only one of the girls who gets a proper arc, who makes mistakes and then learns from them, has plenty of funny moments like when she makes fun of Marty's glasses because "you can still see your face" , and gets the best song too.
Just how good Channing is in this role was made evident during Grease Live when a brilliant, but still lacking, Vanessa Hudgens struggled to bring the same level of emotional struggle and authenticity to the role. The T-Birds' long-running turf war with rival gang The Scorpions is hinted at throughout Grease , from the "75 cents for the whole car" comment to their leader taking Rizzo and Marty to the dance.
A final showdown sees their sworn enemies beaten and disgraced at Thunder Road thanks to a tricky body of water. Lucy Stahl as Annette Cardona. Angela as Annette Cardona. Harrow as Annette Cardona. Wife as Annette Cardona. Cecelia Gomez as Annette Cardona.
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Hide Show Archive footage 1 credit. Cha Cha. Related Videos. Spouse: Robert Romeo her death. Edit Did You Know? I was working really hard to become an actress and didn't want to be thought of as just a dancer. Trivia: During the Thunder Road sequence in Grease , she was experiencing terrible pain due to a tubular pregnancy, in which the fertilized egg begins growing in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus. This explains why she is frequently seen leaning against the cars.
She received leave from her doctor to shoot the scene and upon finishing it, she was rushed to the hospital for surgery. Kenickie is Rizzo's love interest and is also the owner of the Greased Lightnin' car that Danny uses in the drag race against Leo, the leader of the T-Birds' rival gang, the Scorpions. When Conaway starred in the Broadway rendition of "Grease" in the early '70s, he was much closer to the age Rydell High School students would have been.
But at 26, Conaway graduated high school years before his on-screen character did. Marty spends the majority of the movie trying to act more mature than her fellow high school classmates and does so by flirting with older men, most notably Vince Fontaine, the host of Rydell's televised school dance.
Manoff was only older than Marty by four years, making her one of the actors closest in age to their characters in " Grease. Sonny is equal parts cocky and stubborn. He's also a bit of a trickster — he spikes the punch at the school dance and doesn't hold back when making fun of the Pink Ladies. Michael Tucci was more than 10 years older than his character and older than all of his co-stars except Stockard Channing, who was With just a few days left until graduation from Rydell High School, Frenchy drops out to enroll in beauty school and accidentally dyes her hair pink.
Her most famous scene is arguably when Frankie Avalon appears as her guardian angel and sings "Beauty School Dropout," which, paired with her pink hair, persuades her to return to Rydell. Conn had appeared in multiple TV shows and movies before hitting it big with "Grease. Doody is the T-Birds' comedic relief. During the movie, he ends up with Frenchy and, based on her scrapbook, got his nickname for supposedly looking like the TV-famous puppet Howdy Doody. Prior to his stint as Doody, Pearl played Sonny in the musical tour, according to Lancaster Online.
Jan rocked some iconic pigtails that helped convince audience members that she was a high school student. Donnelly told People in that she had to dye her prematurely gray hair to look the part of a high schooler. Putzie is a bit clumsier and less cool than the other T-Birds.
He famously says that Jan is a "cheap date," but she somehow takes it as a compliment and their relationship grows throughout the film. Ward was only two or three years older than his character, making for the most realistic portrayal of a high school student among the main cast.
Leo wasn't a Rydell student so he either attended St. Bernadette's with his girlfriend, Cha-Cha, or was a dropout. Stewart was more than a decade older than his "Grease" character. In addition to starring in " Grease 2 " in , he appeared in numerous TV series through the early '90s. Cha-Cha is a student at a different school in town, St. Following her role in "Grease" and a string of TV appearances in the '70s and '80s, the actress went back to school as Annette Cardona.
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