The fate pairing of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John wasn’t necessarily given to casting the role that was born on Broadway in 1972 by Barry Bostwick and Carol Demas.
Linda Ronstadt and Marie Osmond were one of the names that were suggested to play Sandy, and Travolta reminded me of Entertainment Tonight,” I said. And I said, “Because I felt the same way…and I said…and I said, “If you don’t see this, you guys are nuts.”
Carrie Fisher, goodbye birdie star Anne Margrett and partridge family Susan Day were also on the Sandy list of possibilities.
When producer Alan Kerr raised the idea for Newton John, she didn’t immediately say yes. (However, when she did, Sandy was rewritten to be Australian.)
“I was very worried about making another film because my music career was on track,” the “physical” singer recalled at Vanity Fair in 2016.
