Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John, star of the movie Grease, has died aged 73, her husband announced on Monday in a statement posted on social media. at his ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” John Easterling said in the statement. She had been fighting breast cancer for 30 years. Lacquered hair and leather jackets, Olivia Newton-John had made herself world famous by playing Sandy in the cult musical Grease, alongside John Travolta. “My dear Olivia, you have made our lives better. Your influence has been incredible. I love you so much”, reacted the actor of Pulp Fiction. Since the cancer had fallen on her in her forties, the star put all her energy and her notoriety at the service of the fight against the disease. “Olivia has been a beacon of triumph and hope for 30 years by sharing her breast cancer experience,” her husband wrote, adding that a fund in her name had been set up to fund research on plants. medicines and cancer, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund. “She was and will always be an inspiration to me in so many different ways,” Australian singer Kylie Minogue wrote on Monday. “You’re The One That I Want ”Born September 26, 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom, the one Queen Elizabeth II titled “Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire” is the granddaughter of German physicist Max Born, whose work on quantum theory are crowned with the Nobel Prize. Her father fought in the British forces during the Second World War, participating in the arrest of Rudolf Hess. “Livvy”, as she is nicknamed, was just five years old when her family moved to the Antipodes. Destination Melbourne, Australia. Passionate about music, she won a local singing competition at the age of 16. Her mother pushes her to exploit her talent and here they are both set off again for England. First singles, first successes. In 1974, “I Honestly Love You” was her first number one hit in the United States. The same year, she represented Great Britain at Eurovision and finished 4th, bowing behind… Abba. Then set off for California, where she made a name for herself on the country and western scene. The Anglo-Australian is even consecrated “the most popular singer in the United States” twice and wins a Grammy Award against Queen Dolly Parton. John Travolta, crowned with his success in Saturday Night Fever, blows his name for grease. Released in 1978, the film was immediately a huge worldwide success. In France, it made six million admissions… More than Les Demoiselles de Rochefort or West Side Story! Everyone hums “Summer Nights” and “You’re The One That I Want”. A scene and an outfit that have become legendary Its finale becomes a myth, with the metamorphosis of Sandy, the blonde and wise high school student, into a femme fatale who emerges at the middle of the funfair, cigarette in mouth, black biker jacket, top with bare shoulders, tight lamé pants and dizzying heels… To a furious pace, she sways and electrifies Danny (John Travolta), the rebel with the slicked-back banana. The original outfit was sold in 2019 at auction for … 405,700 dollars. Despite this global success, Olivia Newton-John did not continue her momentum in the cinema for long. She is shooting with Gene Kelly another musical romance, Xanadu, and a new film with John Travolta, Two Of a Kind, but the magic works less. Apart from a few roles in cinema and television, she has devoted herself mainly to song and at her Californian ranch where she lived surrounded by animals. She released some forty country and pop rock albums — including Physical, a huge success in 1981 — and gave hundreds of concerts across the planet. In her fight against cancer, she created the Olivia Newton-John Foundation, followed by fter the progress of research, multiplied fundraising and was interested in alternative treatments. “I am lucky to be married to a wonderful man who knows medicinal plants very well. He grows medicinal cannabis for me,” she said in February 2021 in People magazine.
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