ANALYSIS: Why was Sandy in Grease an Aussie? It was all ONJ's doing
Susan Dey was a contender to play the Sandy Olsson to John Travolta's Danny Zuko in Grease. So were Carrie Fisher and others.
Reddy, who had found her own success stateside via her hit I Am Woman and was keen to share the love, introduced Newton-John to Allan Carr, a Hollywood film producer. Never mind: the producers tweaked the role of Sandy. They changed her name and made her an Aussie who had holidayed, and then moved, to the US with her family. They even agreed to her demands for a screen test— so she could see for herself if she was compatible with Travolta — and an equal billing with her male co-star.Newton-John's early success through songs like Let Me Be There, which won her a Grammy, and Banks of the Ohio were Nashville-lite.
Once again, Newton-John was keen to stress that she was who she was — and she would not bend to the whim of the industry."And since the records have also sold well outside of the country audience it seems to me that we're broadening the acceptance for country music. I wasn't out to do anybody out of an award. I didn't put myself up for it."
Reddy had it, too — tired of the way women were depicted in song, she wrote the feminist anthem she wanted to hear, and famously thanked a female God in her Grammy acceptance speech.
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