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Despite a modest budget, indifferent studio, and several unproven twentysomethings playing teenagers, the film became a national phenomenon, launching John Travolta along with it. As Fox preps a for-TV revival, Michael Callahan looks at what made Grease lightning in a bottle.
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How Grease Beat the Odds and Became the Biggest Movie Musical of
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