This article contains references to drug and alcohol misuse that some may find triggering.
In 1978, a groundbreaking musical hit theaters and left audiences singing along for decades to come.
“Grease” was a smash hit, with four songs from the soundtrack reaching the top five hits.
Olivia Newton-John spoke withBillboardin 2018 saying, “I think the songs are timeless.
Over KZAZ, that is.”
“I was the last person to know I had a disease.
It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige.
In his memoir"Where Have I Been?
“Caesar wrote, “I was the spoiled child who had all the toys.
Inhis memoir, Caesar wrote, “I remember how I slipped further into darkness,” he wrote.
It was like a 21-year blackout.”
Eventually, enough was enough and Caesar checked himself into a hospital in 1977.
He died in February 2014 at the age of 91.
In “Grease,” she played Vi, the head waitress at the Frosty Palace.
However, it was for a tragic reason that she never stopped working.
Blondell’s third husband was producer Michael Todd, whom she married in 1947.
This was also because he had previously been suspected of murdering his previous wife, Bertha Freshman.
He was very private about his personal life but also “carefree and upbeat.”
I’m not sure about Hollywood, though.
“It’s really, really painful for me.
And it is really, really personal.
We’re still kind of praying that there’s a chance he’ll come back,” she said.
However, McDermott has tragically never resurfaced.
But Newton-John managed to find love again and began dating John Easterling in 2007.
But sadly,Travolta faced significant tragedyand loss behind the scenes.
Jett was only 16 years old when a caretaker found him unresponsive in the bathroom.
Later, he was declared dead at the hospital.
“My dearest Jetty, I miss you more than words can say.
I think about you every day,” Travolta wrote.
After the injury, he developed an addiction to painkillers that would eventually be linked to his untimely death.
Conaway had been admitted to the hospital for pneumonia and sepsis and was placed into a medically induced coma.
He was taken off of life support two weeks later.
Charles continued to act until the ’80s when she decided to begin teaching instead.
Charles was just 63 when she died, mere months after Jeff Conaway’s death.
However, eventually, Manoff was able to find solace in teaching fine arts.
“Then he stops and says hello.
And I was like, ‘Oh s***.
Kill me now.’
You know, like, ‘Oh, my God.'”
