- Stockard Channing, Grease, 1977. At 25, Judy Garland’s other daughter was too old but a better age for Rizzo than producer Allan Carr’s favourite. At 33, Channing looked more like Rizzo’s momma. “Allan showed up on the set with a brown pencil and started dotting freckles on my nose, so I’d look younger. I just look[ed] dottier.” If ever a film required botox! Luft later won the in a 1980 summer stock tour of the musical, then played Paulette in Grease 2, 1981. Greased Lightning, however, did not strike twice.
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