We celebrate the 70th birthday of Hollywood icon John Travolta, who was born on February 18, 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey (USA). He is one of the most popular and popular actors, fresh from the gaffe at the Sanremo festival for allegedly promoting a brand of sports shoes and, above all, for dancing, He who enchanted in Grease, the infamous Qua-Qua dance that later became the subject of memes and irony not only in Italy. Travolta celebrates with his two children Ella and Benjamin.
Video Sanremo, Travolta dances the “Qua Qua Dance” with Fiorello and Amadeus
Although enormously successful, his life was marked by great losses: his son Jett died of an epileptic seizure in 2009, his first partner Diana Hyland died of breast cancer and his wife, actress and model Kelly Preston, also died prematurely of the same disease in 2020, without forgetting another death of Olivia Newton John, his unforgettable partner in Grease (1978), which recently, in 2022, saddened him again due to cancer and which he addressed with a heartbreaking “I will always be your Danny” welcomed. Travolta's popularity is such that in April 2023, his white suit that he wore in “Saturday Night Fever” was auctioned off on Saturday for $260,000 after a dispute between participants at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills and online participants had come. In a career “you always experience ups and downs, you never know how a film will turn out,” said John Travolta, defining the rollercoaster ride of his career as an actor. The 1977 cult film “Saturday Night Fever” in which he played Tony Manero, then “Grease” (1978), then the revival with Quentin Tarantino for “Pulp Fiction” (the film won Oscar, Golden Globe and Palme d'Or in Cannes) and an up and down These include “The Beasts” by Oliver Stone, other low-budget and indie films that are little appreciated by audiences and critics. He was nominated for an Oscar twice without ever winning the statuette (for Grease and Pulp Fiction), won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy for “Get Shorty” and was also nominated for “Hairspray – Fat is beautiful!” . For television, he received an Emmy nomination (for his performance as OJ's lawyer).
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