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(born February 18, 1954) is an American
actor,
dancer and singer. He first became known in the 1970s, after appearing
on the
television series Welcome Back,
Kotter and starring in
the box office successes Saturday Night
Fever and Grease.
Travolta's
career re-surged in the 1990s, with his role in Pulp
Fiction, and he has since continued starring in Hollywood films,
including Face/Off, Ladder
49 and Wild Hogs.
Travolta has twice been nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Actor. The
first, for his role in Saturday Night Fever and the second for Pulp
Fiction. He won the Golden
Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for
his
performance in Get Shorty.
| Saturday Night Fever | |
|---|---|
 US movie poster for Saturday Night Fever | |
| Directed by | John Badham |
| Produced by | Robert Stigwood |
| Written by | Nik Cohn (magazine article) Norman Wexler |
| Starring | John Travolta Karen Lynn Gorney Barry Miller Paul Pape Donna Pescow Bruce Ornstein Martin Shakar Julie Bovasso Fran Drescher Val Bisoglio Denny Dillon Robert Costanzo |
| Music by | Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb David Shire |
| Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
| Editing by | David Rawlins |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 14, 1977 March 1978 (PG Version) |
| Running time | 119 min. 113 min. (PG Version) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $237,113,184[1] |
| Followed by | Staying Alive |
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John
Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young
man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque;
Karen Lynn Gorney is his dance partner and
eventual girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free
youth
and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his
life: a dead-end
job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial
tensions
in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho
friends.
A huge commercial success, the movie significantly helped to
popularize disco music around the world and made
Travolta, already well known from his role on TV's Welcome
Back,
Kotter, a household name. The Saturday
Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is the best
selling soundtrack of all time.
The film is the first example of cross-media
marketing, with the tie-in soundtrack's
single being used to
help promote the film before its release and the film popularizing the
entire
soundtrack after its release. The film also showcased aspects of the
music, the
dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture
styles
of clothing, pre AIDS sexual promiscuity,
and graceful choreography.
The story is based upon a 1976 New
York
magazine article by BritishNik Cohn,
"Tribal
Rites of the New
Saturday Night." In the late-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that the
article had
been fabricated.[2]United States and a
stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of
the
subculture he had been assigned to write about. The characters who
became Tony
Manero and his friends were based on Mods,[3] an
English youth
movement that also placed great importance on music, clothes and
dancing. writer A
newcomer to the