You Might Know Her From

Didi Conn


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Tell me more, tell me more! Today we are joined by Didi Conn. You Might Know Her From Grease, Grease 2, You Light Up My Life, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, The Magic Show, Frida, Benson, and Shining Time Station. We spoke with THEE Didi Conn about her iconic performance in the Grease films as Frenchie, the legacy of the franchise carrying on with Grease Live! and Joan Blondell's shoes, and our age-old question about psoriasis as heart disease. Plus, how Toy Story stole from Raggedy Ann & Andy, standing by for Mercedes Ruehl on Broadway, her horrific experience with Joseph Brooks, and the beauty of the musical The Magic Show. This one was a total thing of dreams.

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Discussed this week:

Jacob Elordi is hot to everyone. And Barry Keoghan has the ugly sexy thing down

We loved Cailly Spaeny and Lily Gladstone and Erika Alexander

Golden Globes were a mess this year

Da'Vine Joy Randolph is so good and we are hoping for an Oscar nomination for The Holdovers (don't jinx it)

Da'Vine episode of YMKHF

Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey special

Aloha (2015) was indeed directed by Cameron Crowe, not Alexander Payne

Tracy Morgan took Eddie Murphy's advice for The Last O.G. and hired Da'Vine

Love Chris Klein in Election

Our Oscar nominated guests on YMKHF: Kathleen Turner (Ep #9), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Ep#72), JoBeth Williams (#99), and Lesley Ann Warren (Ep #78)

Lily Gladstone is nonbinary

Yalitza Aparicio from Roma garnered all kinds of acclaim, and where is she now?

Tantoo Cardinal is so good

In the Stephen Schwartz musical, The Magic Show starring Doug Henning

Starred in the movie, Joseph Brooks You Light Up My Life

Joseph Brooks who "wrote" and directed it was a horrible man,. He met a grisly end

Her son is autistic and is currently living in The Center for Discovery

Autismspeaks.org

Played Denise, Benson's new secretary on Benson

Didi Conn introduced herself to David Shire as his crush, Charlotte Rampling, who wrote the music for Farewell My Lovely

Was the voice of Raggedy Ann in the 1977 Richard Williams animated movie, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

Joe Raposo wrote all the music for the movie and he had written a lot of music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company (including the "C is for Cookie" and the Sesame Street song)

Was a standby and then replacement for Mercedes Ruehl in Lost in Yonkers (1991) with Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey

Fonz and the Happy Days Gang cartoon

Stacey Jones in Shining Time Station, which she says was horrible for her career

Conductors: Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin

The tv show was funded by Amtrak and MTH Electric Trains

Thomas movie was filmed on The Isle of Man

Of course played Frenchie in the 1978 classic, Grease (director: Randal Kleiser, choreographer: Pat Birch, producer: Allan Carr)

Kelly Ward (Putzie) was dance captain for Pat Birch

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been wiped from Paramount+

Tegrin's ad: "The heartbreak of psoriasis"

Was there film in the camera for Frenchie's number in Grease 2?

Skating with the Stars judge was a dick (start at 3:27)

Was Alice Ghostley's Mrs Murdoch gay (watch the dancing)

Was waitress in Frida and had Across the Universe (friends with Julie Taymor and worked with her on the stage play, The Green Bird)

Lifted out the door on Cagney and Lacey (s6e12). Who had more upper body strength? Both!

CGI'd pink ladies guy head on body in Rise of the Pink Ladies

Dr Pepper theme song: "I'm a Pepper, You're a Pepper"

In My Life one of the worst Broadway shows I've ever seen (it was a huge flop) and he has Tourette's not autism

Our interview with Talia Balsam (ep #12) introduced us to You Light Up My Life

David Shire (Didi's husband) wrote the Oscar-nominated song for Norma Rae

Barry Pearl holds all the Grease secrets

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