ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 30, 1978

OLIVIA NEWTON- JOHN should have been down in the dumps yesterday after the lukewarm reception critics gave her London concert the night before. But she had a glittering reminder of phenomenal success to keep her smiling. a brooch, which spells Grease in dozens of tiny diamonds, was given to her by the film’s co-producer allan Carr, when box- office receipts topped 100 million dollars.

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 Waow .. la promo d'enfer !! He oui .. on savait ! 

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Aug 18, 1976: Olivia Newton-John / Bruce Murray at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Concert Archives

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DANKE KAY ! ❤

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CET EXTRAIT DE PLUSIEURS HEURES D’ENTREVUES ORIGINALES AVEC LA REGRETTÉE GRANDE OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN A ÉTÉ RÉALISÉ EN JANVIER 1982  .... ALORS QU’ELLE ATTEIGNAIT LE SOMMET DE SA CARRIÈRE AVEC SA CHANSON TORRIDE « PHYSICAL » QUI EST DEVENUE UN SUCCÈS NUMÉRO UN. 

CES CONVERSATIONS SONT DEVENUES LA BASE DE SON ARTICLE POUR LA COUVERTURE DU PEOPLE MAGAZINE EN FÉVRIER DE LA MÊME ANNÉE. 

CARL A PARLÉ AVEC OLIVIA PENDANT LE DÉJEUNER DANS SA MAISON À MALIBU, EN CALIFORNIE, OÙ ELLE ÉTAIT HEUREUSE D’EXPLIQUER COMMENT ELLE ENREGISTRAIT SES CHANSONS, SA VIE QUOTIDIENNE ... QUAND ELLE NE TRAVAILLAIT PAS, SES AMIS HOLLYWOODIENS ET SON GRAND AMOUR DES ANIMAUX. 

VOUS POUVEZ ENTENDRE CERTAINS DE SES CHIENS DE COMPAGNIE ABOYER UN PEU EN ARRIÈRE-PLAN.

A Smash hits song make Olivia the belle of the ball - People magazine (onlyolivia.com)

Gracias Paul !

 

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"I didn't think there could be any more correct person for Sandy in the universe," said John Travolta about Olivia Newton-John, believing the casting was equivalent to "putting Taylor Swift in that role today." #VFArchive https://t.co/P1asbpSaQN

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Olivia Newton-John's Daughter Shares BTS Footage From Moving Duet

 

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Olivia Newton-John prior to her Grease fame in archive interview from 1975 | August 9, 2022 | ACM 

Olivia Newton-John was just 26 years old when she was interviewed by presenter on the Sounds Unlimited TV show in Sydney in December, 1975.

 

 

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'She was really skinny and unwell': Olivia Newton-John's devastated niece Tottie Goldsmith breaks down as she reveals she said goodbye to the star over Facetime in her final moments before her death aged 73

• Olivia died peacefully at the age of 73 at her home in southern California on Monday, surrounded by her family and friends
• In an interview on The Current Affair on Tuesday, Tottie revealed Olivia's health deteriorated leading up to her death and she was 'really skinny and unwell'
• She then revealed she was on Facetime to Olivia during her final moments after being unable to fly to the US in time to see her
• Olivia's passing was announced by her husband John Easterling in a statement, which also said herfinal wish was for donations to be made to her charity in lieu of flowers 
• Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, but the disease returned in 2013 and in 2017 
• In her last video, posted before Christmas, she told fans: 'I wish you all the best and send you love and light

Olivia Newton-John's niece Tottie Goldsmith says Grease star suffered in her final days | Daily Mail Online

« Elle était vraiment maigre et malade »: la nièce dévastée d’Olivia Newton-John, Tottie Goldsmith, s’effondre alors qu’elle révèle qu’elle a dit au revoir à la star sur Facetime dans ses derniers instants avant sa mort à l’âge de 73 ans.

• Olivia est décédée paisiblement à l’âge de 73 ans à son domicile dans le sud de la Californie lundi, entourée de sa famille et de ses amis.
• Dans une interview sur The Current Affair mardi, Tottie a révélé que la santé d’Olivia s’était détériorée avant sa mort et qu’elle était « vraiment maigre et malade »
• Elle a ensuite révélé qu’elle était sur Facetime à Olivia pendant ses derniers instants après avoir été incapable de s’envoler pour les États-Unis à temps pour la voir.
• Le décès d’Olivia a été annoncé par son mari John Easterling dans un communiqué, qui a également déclaré que son souhait final était que des dons soient faits à son organisme de bienfaisance au lieu de fleurs.
• Newton-John a reçu son premier diagnostic de cancer du sein en 1992, mais la maladie est revenue en 2013 et en 2017.
• Dans sa dernière vidéo, postée avant Noël, elle a déclaré à ses fans: « Je vous souhaite tout le meilleur et vous envoie de l’amour et de la lumière.

 

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C'est "fou" ce que l'on peut faire avec des logiciels de nos jours ... en tout cas "l'intru" de LET'S TALK ABOUT TOMORROW est bienvenu ! 

LE TWEET DU JOUR

Quelques souvenirs évoqués à la table des Sheppard lors d'un dîner auquel nous n'étions pas convié ! On reconnaîtra aussi Barry Gibb !
Aucune retombé du radio show partagé entre ONJ et TG sur Siriusxm !

What a great evening!! Lady Linda Gibb, Sir Barry Gibb, John Easterling, Olivia Newton-John, Ali Gibb, Dick Ashby & my mom Nancy Lang and Paul Jackson came to our home last night for dinner.
We sat at the kitchen table sharing old memories, laughing a lot, and then singing. pic.twitter.com/kMFuppFfhp

— TG Sheppard (@TGSheppardmusic) 18 août 2019

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A sus 70 años, Olivia Newton-John está convencida de que cada día es una bendición, un tiempo para disfrutar. La actriz y cantante, famosa desde la década de los 80 por su papel en el musical «Grease», acaba de revelar en un programa de televisión que sufre una recaída en el cáncer de mama contra el que lucha desde 1992. Según ha explicado la artista, sin perder ni un instante la serenidad, padece cáncer en fase 4 (la más avanzada) con metástasis en los huesos.

Pese a lo preocupante del diagnóstico, Olivia ha revelado que le ha dicho a su médico que prefería no saber el tiempo que le queda de vida. «La mente tiene un papel importante en el proceso de curación y, si te dicen que tienes seis meses de vida, muy posiblemente esto es lo que tendrás porque te lo vas a creer», ha explicado la artista que reside en Santa Bárbara (California).

A pesar de este nuevo varapalo a su salud, Olivia asegura sentirse «en buena forma» y estar dispuesta a hacerle frente a la enfermedad con la misma fuerza y optimismo que ha demostrado en ocasiones anteriores.


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What matters at a Hollywood dinner party is not the meal that’s made but the deal. So Helen Reddy’s soiree last year was one for the books—as in accounting, not cooking. One guest was Allan Carr, who was about to co-produce Grease. He had just signed John Travolta—presciently pre-Saturday Night Fever—as his male star, but was still searching for the leading lady. Names like Ann-Margret, Marie Osmond and Susan Dey were dancing in his head. Then, as fate (and Reddy) would have it, Carr looked across the dinner table into the widest, bluest eyes this side of Melbourne.

It’s 12 months later, and the Versailles Room of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas is in pandemonium. Anglo-Australian Olivia Newton-John is winding up her cabaret act when, suddenly, right there onstage, jiving like some kind of tourist gone ape, is—yipes!—John Travolta! Olivia and J.T. boogey through their No. 1 Grease single, You’re the One that I Want, and then harmonize on the movie’s libidinous Summer Nights. “The audience went wild,” exults Livvy, “and we remembered all the dance steps. It was the kind of show you wish all your friends had seen.”

Well, if they haven’t seen it, they’ve undoubtedly screened it. Olivia had not only plucked Carr’s plummy role but also extracted equal billing with Travolta (to compensate for a fire-sale $125,000 fee). Grease has grossed $58 million in its first month and has so far successfully repelled nibbles from Jaws 2 to become the box office leviathan of the summer. Also, the double-LP sound track of Grease has gone quadruple platinum and is selling at a faster rate than Saturday Night Fever. Now if matchmaker Reddy were smart she’d pair Gov. Jerry Brown with her other best single pal, Olivia, who might well win over any of the conservative Proposition 13 crowd still feeling queasy about Linda Ronstadt.

So much for the old crack that if white bread could sing it would sound like Olivia Newton-John. Grease marks the metamorphosis of Olivia from the ingenue category, both on screen and in life, into a tough-minded, 29-year-old career woman. No less than the man from the New York Times pronounced her performance in Grease as “very funny and utterly charming.” Which is not to say that Liv aims to be this generation’s Gidget. She’ll build on the movie-record parlay from Grease, while the music kingdom has long since been at her 7½-B feet.

In the five years since Newton-John arrived in the States, she’s collected six platinum albums (two double platinum), seven gold singles (I Honestly Love You, Have You Never Been Mellow, etc.), three Grammys and a closet full of lesser tributes. The most contentious, though, was her 1974 Country Music Association Award, which triggered a xenophobic Nashville backlash from those then traditionalists Dolly Parton and Johnny Paycheck. Now, ironically, Parton and Paycheck have pranced over to the pop side of the pasture while Olivia shrewdly went out of her way to cut her Don’t Stop Believing LP in Nashville. Last year Dolly touchingly accepted Olivia’s eighth American Music Award for her new (and absent) buddy. Attests Newton-John: “Country fans are the most loyal of all.” The cashbox in her head is now clicking again, and what Olivia is wary of is TV overexposure. She’s had two successful ABC specials, but is mindful that television didn’t exactly boost the recording careers of names she is too polite to say out loud, like Cher and Tennille. Newton-John may still be white bread, but there’s a new element of fiber that’s emerged with Grease.

“It’s always been in the back of my mind to do films,” says Olivia, but she insisted on a screen test with Travolta and wasn’t bashful about demanding rewrites of the script. “I didn’t want to go into something I couldn’t handle or have something to say about,” she observes. Travolta supported Livvy’s insistence that her goody-goody character be toughened. “I was playing a naive girl, but I didn’t want her to be sickly. I kept trying to give her a little strength. John,” she goes on, “gave me a lot of confidence. We became good friends and spent a lot of time together.” Travolta, a decent man who has a way of coming off stiff in quotes, says, “I admire her as a talent and person.”

Without proof, tongues tattled during production that their friendship caused Olivia to split with her off-again British manager-boyfriend, Lee Kramer, 26. “That had nothing to do with Travolta,” Liv protests. “Lee and I had broken up before I started on the film. We had arguments like every couple. We were both new to this country and he was new to being a manager. He was criticized and I was vulnerable to it.” Kramer, who had already made his own bundle importing cowboy boots to Europe, left the family business to take over Liv’s career. “It was my own insecurity that undid me more than anything anybody said,” admits Lee. “Olivia and I tried to split professionally, and that didn’t work. So we split personally.” That wasn’t the answer either, they found. “Now our relationship is good again,” he insists. “Fine. Terrific.”

Olivia’s own caution about lasting ties—she and Kramer keep separate homes—dates to a lonely childhood scarred by her own parents’ divorce. Born in Cambridge to a university don (her grandfather was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born), she moved to Australia at 5 when her father became a master at the University of Melbourne. Her parents traumatically separated when Liv was 11 (breaking up is the subject of Changes, one of the few songs she’s written). Then Olivia dismayed her scholarly father by dropping out of high school and by 16 was back in London’s music scene and soon engaged to English rocker Bruce Welch of the Shadows. Later, with Kramer in tow (he’d glommed onto her on a Monaco vacation), she made the move to the U.S. at the urging of Reddy, godmother to Hollywood’s Aussie colony. “England remains very dear to both of us,” Lee says now. “But the sun shines here.”

That means specifically on the five-acre, ocean-view ranch in the Malibu hills that Newton-John shares with seven horses, three Great Danes, a bulldog, an Irish setter and two cats. “I was a typical girl who loved horses but couldn’t afford them,” she says. During her last Vegas gig Olivia leased jets back home for daily afternoon rides before returning to perform twice each night. If she hadn’t made it in showbiz, she says she would have been a veterinarian, and, outraged by accounts of Japanese fishermen slaughtering dolphins, she and Reddy recently threatened to cancel their upcoming tours—even though Olivia is the No. 1 singing star in Japan, male or female. “I’m not a vegetarian, and I’ve worn fur coats,” she explains. “But I can’t condone senseless killing.” The Japanese government, as does almost everyone else, finally saw it Olivia’s way. The tour’s back on.

She has a gardener-handyman, but has been unable to find a permanent housekeeper. So Olivia cooks stolid English fare for visitors like her twice-married older sister, Rona, whose boyfriend, Jeff Conaway, played Travolta’s buddy “Kenickie” in Grease. She and Lee give maybe three big parties a year and are regulars on the circuit. If Liv is photographed in a dress she never wears it again—”which gives me quite an extensive wardrobe,” she confesses.

One mark of Newton-John’s new assurance—not to mention ambition—is that she has laid a $10 million suit on MCA to get out of what she considers a dead-end contract. (The label is countersuing for $1 million.) Marriage is only a distant possibility, though Olivia says, “I would like children before I’m 35.” There’s talk about her starring in the Leslie Caron role in Allan Carr’s remake of Lili. “We are not going out to prove that Olivia’s the world’s greatest dramatic actress,” says Kramer. But Newton-John herself notes confidently, “There’s a big upsurge in films that are funny and entertaining and romantic. So my timing is pretty good.”

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A lovely interview with Singer and actor Olivia Newton John, filmed at the London Film premier of 'California Suite in 1979

First Televised: 19/03/1979




Donald Sutherland, Olivia Newton John, John Mills meeting Princess Anne at the 'California Suite' Premiere - Mar 1969

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Unfortunately most german press jumped on the gossip rain as well. This is also awful with lots of
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Cela parait si difficile d'avoir une vraie réponse lorsque tout le monde s'inquiète du devenir d'Olivia Newton-John !
Merci Brian ! Au moins on est rassuré ! ( Et zuuuut !! ONJ ne prend pas sa retraite !! ;-) )

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En 1965, Olivia Newton-John a joué dans son premier film - Funny Things Happen Down Under . Réalisé par la Pacific Films à Melbourne, en Australie , ce film d'une heure était une comédie musicale destinée aux enfants. C'est donc l'une de ses premières apparitions !

Olivia n'a pas joué un grand rôle dans ce film mais a brillament poussé la chansonnette  "Christmas Time Down Under" (non disponible sur disque ... bien sur !).

In 1965 Olivia Newton-John starred in her first film - Funny Things Happen Down Under. Made by Pacific Films in Melbourne, Australia, this one hour film was a comedy/musical aimed at children.

Olivia did not have a large part in the film but sang one song "Christmas Time Down Under" (not available on any record release). She can be seen in the background throughout the movie contributing several lines.

Read more at http://onlyolivia.com/visual/tv/60/65/65funnythings/index.html



Et quelques articles des archives du Women's Weekly australien : ONJ en 1964 !

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The Australian Women's Weekly
6 Sep 2018

Olivia Newton-John was John Travolta’s favourite thing about Grease, the star revealed at a 40-year reunion for the film. Cast and crew from the 1978 hit gathered for a special tribute, where Travolta revealed he was instrumental in getting Olivia cast. “There was utterly no one else,” Travolta said. “I said, ‘There is no person in the universe other than Olivia Newton-John to play Sandy’.”

Olivia Newton-John était la chose préférée de John Travolta à propos de Grease, la star avait révélée cet état de fait lors d’une réunion pour les 40 ans du film. L’équipe du cultissime film de 1978 s'est rassemblée pour un hommage spécial, où Travolta a révélé qu’il avait joué un rôle important dans la distribution du film et donc du choix d’Olivia. "Il n'y avait absolument personne d'autre", a déclaré Travolta. "J'ai dit:" Il n'y a personne dans l'univers autre qu'Olivia Newton-John pour jouer Sandy ".


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A very nice article from a german MAG :-)

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THE couple mythique à Deauville en septembre 1978 !

Après le site Mirrorpix, c'est le site GETTY qui met à disposition les superbes photos du couple mythique à Deauville ...

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Hein ?? What's New ???

Un grand merci à TOSCA & KAY !