Go Grease Lightning! The Best Facts About The Film

Published on November 24, 2019 By Chloe Draws

A record-breaker

Grease was such an overriding success that beat out all its competition, but that’s not all. It was actually the highest grossing movie of the 20th century and stayed at the top spot for almost 30 years had it not been for Mamma Mia.

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When the musical came out in 2008, it knocked Grease out of that spot, but if it hadn’t, Grease would still be the highest grossing musical movie of all time. Nonetheless, it still had an incredibly impressive run.