Grease question (1 Viewer)

According to IMDB, when Paramount first released it on Home Video in 1979, all references to Doris Day were cut from the Sandra Dee song. Why would Doris Day, or anybody else associated with her, have anything against referencing her in that song?

I've never seen any video version of Grease that didn't have that line. There'd be a big hole in the action if they cut it. Considering the song had been around for seven years up to that point—the show opened on Broadway in 1972—if she had had that much of an objection to it for making fun of her wholesome image, she would have sued before the show reached the screen.

I think it's an urban myth. And why would Doris Day have a problem with that shout-out anyway? Or the one she got in Hairspray? Those composers only did it because they love her.

Nothing was ever cut from the song - the imdb is nonsense and whoever put that is a first-class twit.

I can't imagine Ms Day ever taking offence at that song from "Grease".

One of the best parts of the movie. It only makes me think very very good nice thoughts about her, and that's the truth. But this "fact" is most likely not.

Not to hijack, but I'd always wondered about the faded down Coke ads. I think they wanted too much for their use... bummer... still, bothers me everytime I see that hack job of a fade down, especially obvious with the blu ray (which I just watched for the first time a few weeks back).

IMDB claims that the early home video prints kept the coke ads intact. Makes me wonder if that statement is a load of bunk, the same way the missing Doris Day references claim is a load of bunk.

IntoIt said:

IMDB claims that the early home video prints kept the coke ads intact. Makes me wonder if that statement is a load of bunk, the same way the missing Doris Day references claim is a load of bunk.

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The blanked out Coke ads were due to a Pepsi tie in when the movie was released. In these days they would have CGI the Pepsi logo into those areas. But the Coke Logo was never visible in any home release.

Thank you. Changing the subject a little...

The early home video releases, I'm pretty sure, had an acceptable sound mix. Truer to the original release in movie theaters, compared to the sound mixes used today. The original sound mix on the 35mm negative was Dolby.

ahollis said:

The blanked out Coke ads were due to a Pepsi tie in when the movie was released. In these days they would have CGI the Pepsi logo into those areas. But the Coke Logo was never visible in any home release.

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Full story is here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s70grease.html I know some people take Savant to task on his assessment of transfer quality (see his laterst review of the Hatari! BD), but when it comes to Hollywood legends, he's pretty spot-on.

Stephen_J_H said:

Full story is here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s70grease.html I know some people take Savant to task on his assessment of transfer quality (see his laterst review of the Hatari! BD), but when it comes to Hollywood legends, he's pretty spot-on.

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I'll go with that but I do remember the Pepsi Tie in. When we played the film we were Coke pourers in our Theatres and Pepsi really made a push for logo cups but we could not participate. And on another part of your post, I was disappointed with his view of HATARI.

IntoIt said:

Thank you. Changing the subject a little...

The early home video releases, I'm pretty sure, had an acceptable sound mix. Truer to the original release in movie theaters, compared to the sound mixes used today. The original sound mix on the 35mm negative was Dolby.

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The original sound mix has not been available since the botched remix done for the 1998 re-release. That mix has numerous changes and some big mistakes with sloppy music edits, background vocals added or out of sync and bizarre mix changes to many of the songs. They added a lot of foley which is too loud in relation to the music. I can't stand to watch it with that mix. I have a custom made DVD version with the original soundtrack from the laserdisc and I watch that. People have been complaining about this since 1998 but Paramount has never included the original mix in any release since.

And the original Paramount logo is missing as well, including the fanfare specifically for this film. I wish they would do a 4K restoration of the original 1978 version.

moviebuff75 said:

And the original Paramount logo is missing as well, including the fanfare specifically for this film. I wish they would do a 4K restoration of the original 1978 version.

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Yes, I miss that fanfare. It seems like a good candidate for a 4k version, hopefully they will fix everything. That's probably the last time it will be revisited.

Why not converted in to 3D?