Olivia Newton-John, who died on Monday after a decades-long battle with breast cancer, was breezy and winsome as a young pop singer. Yet she was something of an aesthetic risk-taker in her most popular films.
,” she describes working on the movie “Grease” as “a tale of two Sandys.” There was “Sandy #1”—the chorus girl in pink crinolines who always makes curfew and never kisses and tells—and “Sandy #2,” the lip-licking vixen in spandex pants so tight that Newton-John had to be sewn into them for the film’s final scene. “Number two smoked, wore black leather and high heels, and wrapped her legs around a boy as he danced her through the grounds of the high school,” Newton-John writes.
Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, in 1948 to a pair of intellectuals, Brinley Newton-John and Irene Helene Born. Her father, a German translator from Wales, was the headmaster of King’s College when she was a child. Her mother, a writer, was the daughter of the Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physicist Max Born, a longtime friend and collaborator of Albert Einstein’s who fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
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