Dinah Manoff and Didi Conn won the hearts of movie-goers in the role of Frenchy and Marty in 1978’s Grease. But in the present day, the beloved actresses are still going strong!
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Conn, 75, nabbed her third film role ever in Grease, playing the famed beauty school dropout and member of the Pink Ladies alongside Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing. She had a resurgence in children’s television thanks to her role alongside Ringo Starr on Shining Time Station. More recently, she appeared on the FOX series Best Medicine, in which she plays Geneva Potter, a senior Port Wenn resident.
Manoff, 70, went on to roles in the hit series Empty Nest in the '80s and '90s, which was a spinoff of The Golden Girls. She also starred on the cult-favorite family series State of Grace, which launched the careers of Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman. She released her first novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold, in 2021.
But together, the duo reunited with fellow Grease co-stars Lorenzo Lamas, Barry Pearl, and Jamie Donnelly, and had a great time singing together. Check out the video below:
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Yes! On the first day on the Grease set, Newton-John was extremely nervous, but Conn used improvisation to help her relax.
“The first scene in the movie was her scene of walking onto the campus of Rydell with Frenchy, and she was nervous,” Conn told PEOPLE last year. “There we were so many, many, many times, she said how grateful she was that we had so much fun and that I just pulled her right into it.”
In the decades after the film came out, Conn and Newton-John remained in close touch, with Conn calling Newton-John “just so sweet and beautiful.”
“I lived in Malibu on the bottom of Big Rock, and she lived on the top of Big Rock, so I’d see her a lot,” Conn shared of her friend, who died in 2022 from metastatic breast cancer. “I miss her.”
What’s Next for Didi Conn?
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Back in February, Deadline announced that Conn would be heading to a guest-starring role on Elsbeth. Conn will tackle the role of Beverly Corman, the wife-turned-widow of Barney Coleman, played by Perfect Strangers star Mark Linn-Baker. Her character is “determined to get justice for her late husband.” Joanna Gleason and Griffin Dunne will also join the cast.
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