July 9, 2025
GREASE (1978) – AFI Movie Club
An iconic musical confection starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta as a star-crossed high school Romeo and Juliet, GREASE (1978) was the word on three of AFI’s lists celebrating excellence in the American art form – appearing among the greatest film musicals and the greatest screen love stories of all time, with its “Summer Nights”...
June 15, 2023
From the AFI Archive: GREASE in American Film Magazine
By Marjorie Rosen (American Film Magazine, February 1978) I know that the world is currently having a love affair with the fifties, that everyone is dancing to fifties' tunes and watching fifties-type shows on television ("Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley"). And since the catalyst for this nostalgia explosion, the Broadway musical Grease, is about to...
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