Biography: John Travolta
November 6th, 2009
In fact, one could say that the sweet smell of success in quality is great, the second and third round. Ask John Travolta, who could be dubbed the “King of returns” in our generation. With a 1970s hit television show under his belt, and several blockbuster movies to his name, Travolta became a household name overnight. In the 1980s, however, the choice of Travolta in the movie roles did not do well on the screen, and for a short period of time that it was a coveted actor in Hollywood, as before. But things changed in the 1990s with the release of “Pulp Fiction,” Travolta doing one of the more Hollywood actors around demand. John Joseph Travolta was born on 18 February 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey to Salvatore, a tire salesman of Italian descent, and Helen, a school teacher of Irish theater, Travolta was one of six children who loved to perform small sketches on stage at the basement of his parents. Travolta decided at a young age that entertaining was his chosen life profession, and began to train for it. Inspired by the Beatles learned to play guitar. Born with a desire to dance, Travolta participated in a Twist contest and won. At the age of 12, Travolta enrolled in the workshop of an actor when “performance bug” bit, and from there just used their musical talents in the vicinity of the theater and dinner, all while he heard the tap Gene Kelly’s brother, Fred, and the latest dance moves from “Soul Train”.
When Travolta was sixteen, he left high school to try to get into the theater. Living with her sister, Ana, Travolta was found to support himself at times as a ticket collector, teller or a baggage handler. From the beginning, many off-Broadway, the parties reached Travolta from “Rain,” “The Boyfriend”, “Bus Stop”, “Bye, Bye Birdie” and “Grease” with Travolta acting as Doody. Bit parts began to appear on television in the 1970s as well. 1975 was the entry of Travolta shines in the hearts of America as the character of Vinnie Barbarino on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Travolta portrayed
a dense, but students of the hip, who controlled the small package of hooligans. Travolta became the star of the show at any time, prompting the film offers such as “the tenth level” and “Devil’s Rain” in the mid-1970s. This would be a precursor of the first screen of his role in “Carrie” (1976), as bad news triggers teenage Carrie wave of killings in the end of the film with buckets of pig blood. Interested in more believable roles, Travolta had by Tod Lubitch,
a person with immune deficiency in “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” (1976), bringing in a stellar performance. Travolta also had a Top 20 hit single 1977 with the song “Leave it.” Billboard magazine even gave him the award for Best Male Vocalist for her album “Fever Travolta.” It was also during this time that Travolta conducted a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, who was eighteen years his senior. Professional and personal happiness seemed to surround Travolta, and it seemed only going to get better and better. Before the making of “The child in the plastic bubble”, Travolta played a character called Tony Manero in a new movie called “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). Travolta’s character was from 9 to 5 dude that loved to dance with ladies night, oh, Travolta could dance. With elegant techniques Travolta and disco mega-hit written by the Bee Gees, “Saturday Night Fever” was a success. Travolta was nominated for an Oscar, and his ever famous white suit from the film was finally sold for $ 145,000 in the session in a Christie’s auction.
1977 and 1978, found the tables turning to Travolta. With the premiere of Saturday Night Fever, Travolta begins to experience a succession of tragedies and disappointments. The first was the death of Diana Hyland cancer, followed by the death of his mother the next year. Ironically it was his role in a next film where she plays a young woman involved with a much greater played by Lily Tomlin in “moment to moment.” Obviously they need time off, Travolta was as follows rushed into the role of Danny Zuko in the Broadway musical ” Grease “(1978), opposite singer Olivia Newton-John, a new star in their own right. To this day, the musical is considered the most successful in history, bathed in a cool four million dollars and two singles as well.
Wanting to get away from his earlier images on the film, Travolta embarked on a string
projects to send his career spiraling downward. Among them: “Urban Cowboy” (1980), with Debra Winger, “Blow Out” (1981), directed by Brian De Palma, “Two of a Kind” (1983), and a sequel to “Saturday Night Fever” called ” “Staying Alive” (1983), which many considered to have been off screen since it was an insult to the original film. Other less successful projects were: “Perfect” (1985), “Twist of Fate” (1984 ) and “Shout” (1991), to name just a few of the titles. The hopes of a return to the “Look Who’s Talking”, the series shows a ray of hope for Travolta, but nothing unusual. That was it will change.
With Michael Madsen transfer a movie role in “Wyatt Earp”, Travolta was elected to the slime-ball role of Vincent Vega in “Pulp Fiction” (1994), which he accepted for forty cool hundred thousand dollars. Once again, an Oscar-nominated performance! A string of hits followed, including Get Shorty “(1995), which won a Golden Globe Travolta,” Phenomenon “(1996),” Michael “(1996),” Primary Colors “(1998) and” A Civil Action “(1998).
Again, Travolta’s career plummeted with the release of “Battlefield Earth” (2000), created by L. Ron Hubbard, which cost seventy million dollars profit and a raspberry Gold Travolta as worst actor, and “Swordfish” (2001), with the controversy over Halle Berry’s “true” exposure. Trying to back up the stairs of the hit movie, Travolta took a few roles in the way in movies like “Basic” (2003), starring Samuel L. Jackson, and “The Punisher” (2004), in comic-book form. It did not, however, that wage demands are overwhelming and Travolta at a time waiting for twenty million dollars in fees for a movie, plus four million dollars for expenses. Nor was beneficial for Travolta to turn down the Oscar-winning role as lawyer in the musical “Chicago.” Fortunately, the term “third times a charm” was about to take place.
As before, Travolta seemed to find success again, beginning with the projects of the movie “Ladder 49″ (2004) and “The Punisher” (2004). Release into film roles, with titles like “Be Cool” (2005), “Lonely Hearts” (2006) and the surprise hit “Wild Hogs” (2007) attended by sixty one hundred and seven million cool. But is the character of Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray” (2007), where Travolta is dressed as a washerwoman obese, always sticking in everyone’s memory. In 2008, Travolta lent his voice to an animated film from Disney called Bolt “which leans toward the world of action science.
Everything in life Travolta, both professionally and personally was looking good. His career was back on track. He has been happily married to actress Kelly Preston since 1989, and was blessed with two children, son Jett and daughter Ella Bleu. Then the unthinkable happened. On 2 January 2009, while Travolta family holiday in his family home in the Bahamas, 16 Jett died of a stroke in her bathroom. He was cremated and a funeral was held in Florida. As if not tough enough for Travolta now mourn the death of his only son, who now has to endure the agony of killing three people on low trying to extort millions from him some information and photos of her dying son in the hospital. The legal action was taken, and the three individuals were arrested.
John Travolta has been through the good, the bad and the ugly. He has proved of great character, that when things go wrong, does not have to be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. With the support of his loving family, church, friends and fans, Travolta will see its way through the day better and brighter, and continue their streak of first-rate movies.
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