Go Grease Lightning! The Best Facts About The Film

Published on November 24, 2019 By Chloe Draws

Strange inspiration

People can find inspiration in the strangest of places and this is exactly what happened when the writers of Grease came up with the song “Beauty School Dropout”. One of the writers had seen a news story about a teenage murderer who had recently dropped out of beauty school and their life took a completely different turn.

Paramount Pictures

While a murder story doesn’t exactly fit in with the light-hearted and fun story line of Grease, the song became a hit and one of the favorites on the official soundtrack.