Zuko Baby - Danny Zuko (Grease) Fanlisting

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Danny Zuko, leader of the greaser gang "T-Birds" of Rydell High, falls in love with a goody two shoes girl named Sandy Olsen over the summer. They thought she'd be leaving and never see each other again, but to their luck...she begins to attend Rydell High. She is immediately accepted into the group "Pink Ladies" and shortly Danny and her re-meet. Danny has seemed to have changed but in the hopes of winning Sandy back, he changes into the loving, jock Danny Zuko that Sandy met during the summer permanently.

Trivia:

Henry Winkler, who was playing Fonzie on "Happy Days" (1974), was originally supposed to play Danny but didn't for fear of being typecast.
Susan Dey and Deborah Raffin were the first choices for the role of Sandy (Dey declined the role after her manager advised against it). Marie Osmond later claimed on the Larry King Show that she had been also been offered the role but declined "on moral grounds" though she later admitted this to be untrue.
Lucie Arnaz was first choice for the role of Rizzo but was rejected after her actress mother Lucille Ball refused to allow her to screen test at Paramount Studios (she wrongly claimed that she used to own it).

Due to a zipper breaking, Olivia Newton-John had to be sewn into the trousers she wears in the last sequence (the carnival at Rydell).
Jeff Conaway had to walk slightly stooped so that John Travolta would appear taller.
Set in high school, most of the principal cast were way past their teenage years at the time of filming. John Travolta was 24; Jeff Conaway, Michael Tucci, Barry Pearl, and Didi Conn were all 28; Olivia Newton-John was 29; Jamie Donnelly was 30 and Stockard Channing was the eldest at 34. Dinah Manoff and Lorenzo Lamas were still teenagers - both were 19.
Randal Kleiser hated the song "You're The One That I want" saying it "sounded awful".
"You're the One That I Want" took just an afternoon to film.
When Olivia Newton-John was cast as Sandy, her character's background had to be changed to accommodate Newton-John's own background. In the original Broadway musical Sandy was an all-American girl and her last name was Dumbrowski. In the movie version, she became Sandy Olsson, foreign-exchange student from Australia. Also, because of Newton-John's casting, John Farrar (Newton-John's frequent songwriter) had to write two new songs for the film while other songs from the Broadway musical were dropped.
Although cut from the movie, The Alma Mater/Parody instrumental from the stage version can be heard in the office on the last day and during the carnival scenes.
Several musical numbers were not used in the film. They appear, however, as jukebox tunes, or band numbers at the high school dance. Among them "Freddy, My Love," "Those Magic Changes," and "It's Raining on Prom Night" all of which were performed by characters in the stage musical.
Carrie Fisher was considered for the role of Rizzo.
For a time, it was the third highest grossing movie of all time behind only Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977).
It was released again in theaters in 1998 for a couple of reasons: to mark the 20th anniversary of the original and because the year before, a dance mix of songs from the soundtrack became a big hit on radio.
The film was released in Spain as Brilliantina (Brilliantine) - because its English title translated as "fat" in Spanish.
Danny's blue windbreaker at the beginning of the film was intended as a nod to Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The original stage play had more sexual references than the censors wanted to allow. Among these was the use of plastic wrap as protection. To overcome the censors, there weren't any blatent references but Danny rubs plastic wrap over his crotch during "Greased Lightning".
The scene in Frenchy's bedroom while Rizzo is singing the line about Elvis was actually filmed the same day that Elvis Presley died.
The final musical scene, "You're the One That I Want" was filmed with the help of a traveling carnival. However, director Randal Kleiser decided the next day that additional scenes were needed for close-ups. Unfortunately the carnival had left town so set decorators were called in to build replica backgrounds, that matched the carnival ride's construction for the close-ups.
Randal Kleiser hated the opening title song, "Grease" (he thought that the cynical lyrics and disco beat were inappropriate for a film set in the 1950s).
The dance contest scene was filmed during the summer, when the school was closed. The gym had no air conditioning and the doors had to be kept closed to control lighting, so the building became stifling hot. On more than one occassion, an extra had to be taken out due to heat related illness.
Choreographer Patricia Birch worked with Sha-Na-Na to ensure that the tempo of the dance contest would be correct. She appears, uncredited, as one of the dancers during the contest.
In the song "Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee", it originally references Sal Mineo in the stage version. However, due to Mineo's murder the year before shooting began the reference was given to Elvis Presley.
In the scene where the cast are near the bridge after the car race, the water on the ground was stagnant and dangerous. Some cast members became ill from filming as the setting was a derelict place full of dirt and rubbish.
Harry Reems was originally signed to play Coach Calhoun. Producers got cold feet weeks before filming and replaced him with Sid Caesar.
Randal Kleiser shot a scene of Kenickie and Rizzo getting into a heated argument, which explained their attitude towards each other in the diner scene (where Rizzo threw the malt at Kenickie). The fight scene was cut because it didn't match the tone of the rest of the film; it was much grittier, described by one crew member as "looking like something Martin Scorsese might have directed."
"Hopelessly Devoted To You" was written and recorded after the movie had wrapped. The producers felt they needed a strong ballad and had Olivia Newton-John come back to film her singing this song. This song ended up receiving an Academy Award nomination.
The official premiere after-party was at Studio 54.
The production had a product placement plan with Coca-Cola, but it fell through. The Coke products were taken out or blurred. There is a huge hanging picture/advertisement in the diner that was blurred out. Photos on the inside flaps of the soundtrack album have Pepsi products.
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, who wrote the original stage play, were originally supposed to serve as executive producers of the film but got kicked off the set by Allen Carr. Patricia Birch who was choreographer on the Broadway stage continued her role in the movie version and the film original song "Sandy" was co-written by 'Louis St Louis' who wrote some songs used in the film.
Originated in Chicago at the Kingston Mines Theatre, of which authors Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey were acting ensemble members. It opened on the 5 February 1971, and cast members Marilu Henner, who played Marty, and James Canning, who played Doody, went on to play those roles on Broadway. Others in the cast were Sue Williams (Rizzo), Bruce Hickey (Kenickie), Bill Cervetti (Miller), Sheila Caeser (Jan), Hedda Lubin (Frenchy), Polly Pen (Patti), Leslie Goto (Sandi), Doug Stevnson (Danny), Gerald Bolnick (Sonny), and Gary Houston (Roger). Guy Barile directed and Ronna Kaye choreographed the production, and Wrick Paul (aka Rick Paul) was set designer. The rock-and-roll band that accompanied the show, led by Michael Williams, was called Sex Nellie, and Love.
"Greased Lightning" was supposed to be sung by Jeff Conaway's character, Kenickie, as it is in the stage version. John Travolta used his clout to have his character sing it. The director felt it was only right to ask Conaway if it was okay. At first he refused, but he eventually gave in.
Rizzo's hickeys were real. Stockard Channing said in an interview that Jeff Conaway insisted on applying them himself.
One of the session drummers for the recording session was 'Cubby OBrien, one of the original Mouseketeers

Quotes:

Rizzo: Where are you goin'? To flog your log?
Danny: Much better then hanging around here with you dorks.

Vince: Hi, I'm Vince Fontaine, I'm judging the dance contest.
Marty: I don't think I'm entered.
Vince: A knockout like you? What's your name?
Marty: Marty.
Vince: Marty what?
Marty: Maraschino. You know, as in cherry.

Danny: You can't just walk out of a drive-in.

Sandy: [Danny is trying to make out with Sandy] No, Danny!
Danny: Sandy, don't worry about it, nobody's watching.
Sandy: Danny, get off me!
Danny: Come on, Sandy, what's the matter with you? I thought I meant something to you!
Sandy: Meant something to you! You think I'm going to stay here with you in this? this sin wagon? You can take this piece of tin!
[throws his class ring at him and runs away]
Danny: Sandy, you just can't walk out of a drive-in!

Vince: It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes.

Danny: Oh, bite the weenie, Riz.
Rizzo: With relish.

Marty: What's with you tonight?
Rizzo: I feel like a defective typewriter.
Marty: Huh?
Rizzo: I skipped a period.
Marty: Think you're P.G.?

[first lines]
Sandy: I'm going back to Australia; I might never see you again.
Danny: Don't... don't talk that way, Sandy.
Sandy: But it's true! I've just had the best summer of my life, and now I have to go away. It isn't fair.
[Danny starts kissing her]
Sandy: Danny, don't spoil it!
Danny: It's not spoiling it, Sandy, it's only making it better.
Sandy: Danny... is this the end?
Danny: Of course not; it's only the beginning.

Danny: That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and what not.
Sandy: Danny?
Danny: That's my name, don't wear it out.
Sandy: What's the matter with you?
Danny: What's the matter with me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Sandy: What happened to the Danny Zuko I met at the beach?
Danny: Well I do not know. Maybe there's two of us. Why don't you take out a missing person's ad? Or try the yellow pages, I don't know.

Frenchy: Doody, how do I look?
Doody: Like a beautiful blonde pineapple!

Jan: You mean you're dropping out?
Frenchy: I don't look at it as dropping out! I look at it as a very strategic career move.

Patty: Oh you MUST think I'm a terrible clod for not introducing myself to your friend!... Hi, I'm Patty Simcox...
[moves to sit down]
Patty: Welcome to RydELL OH!
[sits on Jan's apple. Jan removes it as Patty sits down and shoots dirty look at Rizzo and Marty]
Patty: ...well I hope you'll be at cheerleader tryouts. We'll have so much fun and get to be life-long friends!
Kenickie: Hey Rizzo, I hear you're knocked up.
Rizzo: You do huh? Boy, good new really travels fast.
[shoots Marty a look of contempt]
Kenickie: Hey listen, why didn'tcha tell me?
Rizzo: What's it to ya?
Kenickie: Anything I can do?
Rizzo: You did enough!
Kenickie: I don't run away from my mistakes
Rizzo: Don't worry about it Kenickie, it was somebody else's mistake.
Kenickie: Thanks a lot kid.
[Kenickie walks away]
Rizzo: [calls out to Kenickie] Any time...

Leo, Scorpions member: The rules are... there ain't no rules!

Sonny: [after Marty tells Sonny Riz is pregnant, sonny spreads the news to others] Rizzo got a bun in the oven.

Mr. Lynch: [Sonny spikes the punch, teacher chaperone turns to watch Sonny] What are you doing?
Sonny: Washing my hands.

Sonny: When a guy picks a chick over his buddies, something's gotta be wrong. Come on, guys let's go for some pizza.

Frenchy: I wish I had a guardian angel to tell me what to do. You know, like Debbie Reynolds had in "Tammy." What do you think?
Waitress: If you find him, give him my phone number.

Rizzo: Look who's coming. Patty Simcox, the bad seed of Rydell Hi-
[to Patty]
Rizzo: Hi.
Patty: Oh I just love the first day of school, don't you?
Rizzo: [sarcastically] It's the biggest thrill of my life.
Patty: Hey, they just announced the nominees for student council this morning and guess who's up for vice president?
Rizzo: Who?
Patty: ME. Isn't that the most? To say the least?
Rizzo: The very least.

Sandy: Are you making fun of me, Riz?
Rizzo: Some people are so touchy.

Cha Cha: They call me Cha Cha because I'm the best dancer at St. Bernadette's.
Frenchy: With the worst reputation.

Rizzo: I've got so many hickies people will think I'm a leper.
Kenickie: Relax... A hickie from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card, when you only care enough to send the very best!
Rizzo: You pig!
Kenickie: Oh, I love it when you talk dirty!

Sandy: He was sort of special.
Rizzo: There ain't no such thing.

Rizzo: [singing] I don't steal and I don't lie / But I can feel and I can cry / A fact I bet you never knew / But to cry in front of you / That's the worst thing I could do.
Danny: You're looking good, Riz.
Rizzo: Eat your heart out.
Danny: But sloppy seconds ain't my style.

Rizzo: [singing] Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee / Lousy with virginity / Won't go to bed 'til I'm legally wed / I can't, I'm Sandra Dee.

Coach Calhoun: [reading list of dance rules] All couples must be boy-girl.
Putzie: Too bad, Eugene!

Rizzo: [breaks out a bottle of wine] How about a little Sneaky Pete to get the party going?
[the girls all cheer]
Jan: Anyone want a Twinkie?
Marty: Twinkies and wine? Oh, that's real class, Jan.
Jan: It says right here it's a dessert wine.
[offers bottle to Sandy who's hesitant]
Jan: What's the matter? We don't got cooties!
Rizzo: I'll bet you've never had a drink before, have you?
Sandy: Oh, yes I did. I had some champagne at my cousin's wedding once.
Rizzo: Well, ringa ding-ding.

Principal McGee: [continuing with dance rules] Anyone doing tasteless or vulgar movements will be immediately disqualified
Rizzo: Well, that leaves us out!
Coach Calhoun: Let's keep it clean, people. Let's keep it clean.

Rizzo: [suggesting possible dates for dance] What about Rudy from the Capri Lounge?
Marty: [annoyed] Get serious!
Rizzo: It's just a suggestion.
Marty: Well, I already called him.

Sandy: My parents want to invite you over for tea on Sunday.
Danny: I don't like tea.
Sandy: [laughing] You don't have to drink tea.
Danny: I don't like parents.

Principal McGee: Blanche, do you have theschedules?
Blanche: Yes Ms. McGee, I just had my hands on them.
Principal McGee: Oh good, they'll be nice and smudged.
Blanche: Oh here they are. If they would have been a snake they would have bitten me.
Principal McGee: Blanche, these are the schedules we had for last semester. Maybe next year you'll find the ones for this semester.

Danny: SANDY.
Sandy: Tell me about it Stud.

Sandy: Your a fake and a phony and I wish I never laid eyes on you.

Doody: The problem's in this rubber band engine.
Kenickie: The problem's in your mouth.
Sonny: Kenickie, got any Scotch tape?

Danny: Why, this car is Auto-matic. Its System-matic. Its Hyyyyydro-matic. Why, its Greased Lightning!

Sonny: I'm not taking any of her crap, that's all, I'll take no crap from nobody.

Blanche: When I hear music, I just can't make my feet behave.
Sonny: Thinks she's Tinkerbell.
Blanche: Hush, Sonny.

Danny: Uh, I'm not very hungry; just gimme a double Polar Burger wit' everything and a cherry soda wit' chocolate ice cream.

Rizzo: Ok, so what do you guys think this is a gang bang?
Sonny: Yeah, you wish.

Danny: You know, if we fix up this car, it could be make-out city, you know that.
Sonny: Right, the chick is gonna have to put out before she even gets in.

[the T-Birds have just pulled into the driveway of Frency's house, where the girls are having a slumber party]
Sonny: Hey Putzie, why don't you call her?
[Putzie looks unsure, then leans forward, gesturing dramatically]
Putzie: Oh, Sandy. Wherefore art thou, Sandy?

Principal McGee: Attention seniors. Before the merriment of commencement commences, I hope that your years with us here at Rydell have prepared you for the challenges you face. Who knows? Among you there may be a future Eleanor Roosevelt or a Rosemary Clooney, and among you young men, there may be a Joe DiMaggio, a President Eisenhower, or even a Vice-President Nixon. But you will always the glorious memories of Rydell High. Rydell forever. Bon voyage.

Rizzo: Peachy keen, jellybean.

Blanche: [struggling with the cotton candy] How many?
Marty: One.

Principal McGee: We have pictures of you so-called mooners. And just because the pictures aren't of your faces doesn't mean we can't identify you. At this very moment those pictures are on their way to Washington where the FBI has experts in this type of identification. If you turn yourselves in now, you may escape a Federal charge.

Principal McGee: I think we all owe a round of applause for Patty Symcox and Eugene Felsnick and committee for their beautiful decorations.
Sonny: Let's hear it for the toilet paper!
Principal McGee: In just a few moments the entire nation will be watching Rydell High, God help us, and I want you to all be on your best behavior.
Sonny: NO HINEY BITING!

Principal McGee: Sonny, aren't you supposed to be in homeroom right now?
Sonny: I was just going for a walk.
Principal McGee: You were just dawdling weren't you?
Sonny: Yes, ma'm
Principal McGee: That is no way to start a new semester, Mr. LaTierri!
Sonny: [mumbles]
Principal McGee: Perhaps a session of banging erasers after school would put you on the right track.
Sonny: Yes, ma'm
[laughs nervously]
Principal McGee: Well? Are you just going to stand there all day?
Sonny: No, ma'm. I mean, yes, ma'm, I mean...
Principal McGee: Which is it, yes or no?
Sonny: No ma'm
Principal McGee: Good, then MOVE!

Danny: [singing] I got chills / They're multiplyin' / And I'm losing control / Cause the power you're supplying / It's electrifyin'.

Danny: That's my name, don't wear it out.

[Frenchy and Sandy are in the bathroom; Frenchy is about to pierce Sandy's ears]
Frenchy: Sandy, Sandy, beauty is pain.
[Sandy screams; Frenchy sticks her head out of the bathroom]
Frenchy: Could you please get me some ice to numb her earlobes?
Marty: Why don't you just let the cold water run, and stick her ear under the faucet?
Frenchy: Oh!
[goes back inside]

Frenchy: Beauty-school sure was'nt as I thought it would be.
Waitress: Nothing ever is.

Danny: Hey guys, look!
Kenickie: Ladies and gentlemen! Dingleberries On Parade!
Sonny: Yeah
[football player gets his foot stuck in his helmet]
Doody: Hey, look! You really put your foot into it this time, Chisum!
Putzie: Yeah, try hopscotch, you hot dog!
Sonny: [laughter] What a gavone! Gumdrops, man.

Frenchy: Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is a daddy.

Coach Calhoun: [Danny is trying out for wrestling and smoking a cigarette] All right, let's trying cutting it to two packs a day. Now, you have to change.
Danny: Well, yeah. That's why I'm here, ya know? To change.
Coach Calhoun: No, I mean your clothes.
Danny: Oh.

Coach Calhoun: [after Danny has failed at wrestling, basketball, and baseball] Well, you know, there are a lot of other sports that don't require any physical contact.
Danny: Oh, yeah? Like what?
Coach Calhoun: Like, uh... track!
Danny: Whaddaya mean, like running?
Coach Calhoun: Not just running! Something that needs endurance! Something that needs stamina! Like, long-distance running! Cross-country running!
Danny: That could be cool.

Principal McGee: If you can't be in athlete, be an athetic supporter.

Rizzo: What's up, Kenick?
Kenickie: One guess.

Marty: Do you think these glasses make me look smarter?
Rizzo: No, you can still see your face.

Rizzo: Hey Zuko! I've got a surprise for you.
Danny: Oh, Yeah?
Rizzo: [chuckles] Yeah
Danny: [throws Sandy in front of him] Sandy!
Sandy: Danny!
Danny: Wha-what are you doing here, I thought you were moving back to Australia?
Sandy: We were but we had a change in plans!
[His friends stare at Danny with a strange face and he changes moods, pretending like he doesn't care]

Frenchy: What do you guys think of Sandy? Do you think we can let her into the Pink Ladies?
Rizzo: Nah, she looks to pure to be pink!

Danny: Well you know, these girls are only good for one thing.
Sonny: Yeah, what are you suppose to do with them the rest of the 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day?
Putzie: [With a serious but confused face] Is that all it takes 15 minutes?
[the guys slap him on the head]

Jan: I've been dieting all day! My mom's apple pie is better than this stuff! do you want some?
Putzie: SURE!
[They start heading out when Sonny stops him]
Sonny: Hey Putzie, remember... 15 minutes!
[He starts laughing and Putzie leaves]

Rizzo: [the girls just convinced Sandy to try a cigarette, she does but starts coughing a lot from it] Ooh... I should've told you! You shouldn't inhale if you’re not used to it!
Frenchy: Sandy, let me show you how to French inhale! It's really cool, watch!
Marty: [Frenchy starts inhale the smoke from her cigarette through her nose] That is the ugliest looking thing I ever saw.
Frenchy: Yeah, the guys really go for it! I mean that's how I got my nickname Frenchy!
Rizzo: Sure it is!
[Frenchy gets a little offended and play hits Rizzo on the leg]

Vince: You Jims and Sals are my best pals, and to look your best for the big contest, just be yourself and have a ball, that's what it's all about after all!

Sandy: Frenchie, I don't feel so good.
Rizzo: Think of it this way if she screws you up she can always fix your hair so your ears don't show.

Sandy: What if they dance diffently than we do back home?
Rizzo: Hey don't worry, maybe you'll invent the kangaroo bop.

Kenickie: You're cruisin' for a bruisin'

Frenchy: Vi, what do you think of waitressing?
Vi: You're too young to know.

Danny: You've gotta make friends with the cameraman.
Sandy: The cameraman?
Danny: Yeah, his name’s Ted.