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Rydell High has been picked for a live national TV broadcast on National Bandstand, hosted by DJ Vince Fontaine (a fictional version of Alan Freed), who flirts with Marty throughout the night. She is then visited by her guardian angel, ( Frankie Avalon), who urges her to return to high school ("Beauty School Dropout").Ī few weeks later, the school dance arrives. Kenickie and Rizzo have an argument and the two groups depart, leaving Frenchy alone to ponder the wisdom of dropping out of high school to attend beauty school after a mistake in hair dyeing class turned her hair bubblegum pink. They attempt to go on a date to the Frosty Palace but it is crashed by both the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds, who are gradually pairing off. After trying basketball, wrestling, and baseball, he eventually discovers an aptitude for track and rekindles his relationship with Sandy. After realizing he still cares for Sandy, who has begun seeing football player Tom Chisum ( Lorenzo Lamas), Danny asks Coach Calhoun ( Sid Caesar) to help him find a sport to impress Sandy. The boys then work with Kenickie to get his heap back in shape ("Greased Lightning"). Their makeout session is interrupted by Leo Balmudo ( Dennis Stewart), the leader of a greaser gang known as the Scorpions, the T-Birds rival gang, who damages Kenickie's car, and takes off. Meanwhile, the T-Birds show up to crash the party and Rizzo goes off to be with Kenickie, and they start casually dating. Rizzo starts to mock Sandy ("Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee") and the other girls join in, until Sandy overhears and goes downstairs to be alone where she laments missing Danny ("Hopelessly Devoted to You"). To cheer her up, Frenchy invites her over to her house to join the rest of the girls for a slumber party that night. Despite his initial excitement, Danny acts indifferently in an effort to protect his cool reputation and spurn Sandy's affections, causing Sandy to run off in disgust. She befriends Frenchy who tries to fit her in with the group, but Rizzo, the group's leader, is initially skeptical, noting that she looks "too pure to be pink".Īt lunch, Sandy tells them about meeting a boy over the summer and falling in love ("Summer Nights") and, when Rizzo realizes she is speaking of Danny Zuko, her ex-boyfriend, she arranges a surprise meeting at a pep rally in order to cause drama. Meanwhile, their group's counterpart, the Pink Ladies, consisting of their leader Betty Rizzo ( Stockard Channing), Frenchy ( Didi Conn), Jan ( Jamie Donnelly) and Marty ( Dinah Manoff) also arrive and soon meet Sandy, who is enrolling at Rydell after her parents decided not to return home. Danny briefly mentions that he met a girl but brushes it off as nothing special. On the first day of their senior year at Rydell High, Danny, the leader of a greaser gang known as the T-Birds, arrives with his best friend, and 2nd-in-command, Kenickie ( Jeff Conaway), Sonny ( Michael Tucci), Doody ( Barry Pearl) and Putzie ( Kelly Ward), and they all catch up on what they did over the summer. As the summer comes to an end, Sandy worries about returning home to Australia and never seeing Danny again, but he assures her that it is only the beginning for them. In the summer of 1958, Sandy Olsson ( Olivia Newton-John) meets local boy Danny Zuko ( John Travolta) at the beach while on vacation and they soon fall in love. 6.4 American Film Institute Recognition.
