John Travolta - ©Theda Bara

The name I highlight in this post is that of the American actor John Travolta, who gained fame during the 1970s, starring in two major box office hits: “Saturday Night Fever” (1977), character: “Tony Manero” and “Grease” (1978), character: “Danny Zuko”.

For “Vincent Vega”, his character in “Pulp Fiction” (1995), John Travolta was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor for the second time in his career, after “Saturday Night Fever”, but he did not win both times . The actor has 2 Golden Globes for Best Actor, for: “Henrietta” (1979) and in Comedy or Musical: “Get Shorty” (1996).

Travolta, in addition to being an actor, is also an airline pilot and flies his own plane on his travels across the United States. He took his passion for aviation very seriously and even had seven planes of different models and sizes at the same time. He currently flies a Boeing 737 BBJ, valued at around $80 million. The former Boeing 707 was donated to the Australian Aircraft Museum and was approximately three years old.

John Travolta has his stars on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard: at 6901, Cinema category.

The actor was born on February 18, 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, and is now 69 years old.

John Travolta was married to Hawaiian-American actress Kelly Kamalelehua Smith-Kelly Preston (1962-2020), from 1991 to 2020, of whom he became a widower, a victim of breast cancer. The couple had two children: Jett Travolta (1992-2009), born with special needs and diagnosed with autism at age two. The boy grew up with all possible care and follow-up, but even so he suffered frequent seizures and died on January 2, 2009, three months before his 17th birthday; the couple's other daughter is actress Ella Bleu Travolta (2000-), now 23 years old. After the death of his wife and son, the actor took a vow of lifelong celibacy, vowing never to take another wife or children, a fact that his former personal secretary from 1978 to 1994, Joan Edwards (1952-) says was a big hoax, since photos of the actor were leaked to the tabloid “The National Enquirer”, in 2012 , with Travolta kissing the pilot of one of his planes, Doug Gotterba (1950-), on the mouth, with whom Joan claims that Travolta dated for six years, and his wife Kelly was still alive. She also claims that the former boss was also intimately involved with famous lawyer Marty Singer (1952-), who released a statement at the time, classifying the fact as ridiculous.

What is certain is that this total privacy invasion of John Travolta's life can never diminish the great actor that he is.