Saturday Night Fever

Once upon a time, inside a Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, disco, John Travolta was down and in no mood to do the day’s scene for "Saturday Night Fever" (1977). Fearing her tiny part might end up scrapped, Fran Drescher marched right up into the feather-haired grill of the famous Sweathog. At that point, the 19-year-old from Flushing, Queens, was an actress whose biggest show business credit was a second-place finish in 1973’s Miss New York Teenager pageant. “Get a grip, John, and do the scene,” was the gist of her message. A grip was gotten, and now Drescher’s line, “Are you as good in bed as you are on the dance floor?” precedes Travolta’s iconic dance-floor solo.

Tony Manero: "You know, Connie, if you're as good in bed as you are on the dance floor, then you're one lousy f*ck."

Connie: "Then how come they always send me flowers the next morning?"

Tony Manero: "I dunno. Maybe they thought you was dead."

Drescher confessed later she was not wearing underwear when she did her scene with Tony just before his big solo dance.

Earlier in her career, in an effort to get more roles as an actress, Drescher once went to a professional to lose her nasal voice and thick New York accent. She was very successful in learning how to speak "normal," but couldn't get any work that way. By that point, people only wanted to hire if she used the "funny" voice that made her famous years later.