Equally, the simplest of things and her true self really was the girl next door. She did the out there, starry stuff: premieres, meetings, lunches, while smiling all the while, which she loved. Her first home was in Big Rock in the California hills where I kept my horse, and we would ride out for hours on end. I was with her through the making, and at the premiere in London and when our stretch limo was mobbed, she was staggered and playfully humbled by all the amazing attention.ĭid she ever know how beautiful she was? No, never, and that was part of her magic. When Allan Carr offered her Grease, she didn’t at first think she was right for the role, but everyone knows there would never have been a better Sandy, the one and only, revered over the world. When her incredible talent and songbird voice was little known to the masses and I was promoting a movie in California, we both had few pennies and I snuck her into my ABC studios-paid-for suite at the Beverley Wilshire Hotel, for what was the most fabulous girls about town Hollywood week. We met as teenagers and throughout the years shared so much of life, love and laughter. WHAT can I say about my beloved friend who filled my heart and head with pride? Here, in an emotional tribute to her lifelong friend, Susan recalls the laughs, loves and heartaches that marked their extraordinary friendship.Īt the Grease premiere in London our limo was mobbed. But it was also away from the cameras that the actresses cemented their lifelong bond, with the pair most at ease among nature, and in the company of their joint love, horses. Whatever life threw at them, the friendship between Susan George and Olivia Newton-John endured right until the very end, with Olivia’s death this week aged 73.įrom the swinging 60s to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, both women grew up in the full glare of the showbiz spotlight. FOR nearly six decades they were the closest friends.
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