Captain Travolta as the             Travolta dancing with Diana, Princess
"Goodwill Ambassador for          of Wales at a White House dinner on
Qantas Airways" in front of       9 November 1985.
his private Boeing 707-138
December 2006.

Grease is a film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs' and Warren Casey's musical, Grease.
The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway and Eve Arden. It was
originally released to theatres on June 16, 1978. It was filmed at Venice High School in Venice,
California. It was released in the U.S. on VHS during the 1980s; the latest VHS release was June 23, 1998
as 20th Anniversary Edition following a theatrical re-release that March. On September 24, 2002, it was
released on DVD for the first time. On September 19, 2006, it was re-released on DVD as the Rockin' Rydell
Edition, which includes a black Rydell High T-Bird jacket cover or the Target-exclusive Pink Ladies cover.
The film opens with the theme song, "Grease", added for the movie and written by Barry Gibb of the Bee
Gees and performed by Frankie Valli.

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning
American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night
Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Hairspray, and Battlefield Earth.

Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey. His father, Salvatore Travolta,
was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother,
Helen Cecilia (née Burke), who was 42 when Travolta was born, was an actress and singer who had appeared
in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama
and English teacher. Travolta's father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish
American; Travolta grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was
predominantly Irish in culture.

 During the last few years of the 1970s, John Travolta reigned as one of the most towering stars in
Hollywood, second, perhaps, only to Burt Reynolds and Robert Redford as a top male box office draw. After
a string of hits in films, on television, and on the radio, Travolta emerged as a seemingly unstoppable
cultural phenomenon, defining tastes in music and fashion while dominating innumerable columns of
newspapers and tabloids. Like so many other celebrities, Travolta's initial fame proved short-lived,
however, and by the mid-1980s the media and the public alike began to regard him as an outmoded relic of
his era.

Travolta is a certified pilot and owns five airplanes, including an ex-Australian Boeing 707-138 airliner.
The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honour of his son Jett and his daughter Ella. Pan American
World Airways was a large operator of the Boeing 707 and used Clipper in its names. The 707 aircraft bears
the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he
flies.

Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while
filming a movie in Durango, Mexico. In 1998, he was cited in a court case as an example, along with Tom
Cruise, claimed by the Church of Scientology of the Church's ability to "cure" homosexuals.