Grease by Randal Kleiser

Author:Randal Kleiser
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: 2019-12-02T13:30:00+00:00

The poster blurred for the 1978 release

The digital fix with the fifties-era Pepsi poster for the 2018 rerelease

The Location

Unlike most of the other exteriors in the movie, Frosty Palace wasn’t shot on location but on a street on a back lot of Paramount. We populated the street with period cars and signs—and the Scorpions driving by to weave in the rivalry between gangs and help set up the climactic Thunder Road race.

Using Stage 16 at Paramount for the interiors meant that Bill Butler didn’t have to do extensive work to prepare the location, such as blacking in windows for a night effect or setting up a generator and cables, as he had to do in the Huntington Park High School gymnasium for the dance contest. Meanwhile, Phil Jefferies, the production designer, added the flavor of the era to the interiors with all sorts of fifties-specific touches. He had designed the set so that Frenchy would see the Teen Angel “beyond the soffits.” “Beyond the what?” I asked him. He explained that soffits are an architectural touch near the top of a wall. As Frankie appeared, he wanted the ceiling to disappear.

One exception to the fifties-era touches that sharp-eyed fans have pointed out was the jukebox, which appears to be a Wurlitzer 1050 from 1973 that copied the design of a classic 1950s-era jukebox. It could have been an oversight, but I doubt it. Phil was tremendously talented, having worked in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Manchurian Candidate (and gone on to do An Officer and a Gentleman). He always had a good reason for anything he did; in this case, he might have been channeling the seventies.

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