Today in History: The movie Saturday Night Fever came out in theaters (remember those) on this day in 1977. It was the highest-grossing dance movie of all time until Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) and Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike (both of which I've never seen). Most of the movie was completed when the BeeGees were hired to write songs for it, which they did in one weekend.
"With 15 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, Saturday Night Fever was the top-selling soundtrack album of all time before being supplanted by The Bodyguard some 15 years later. It's also the only disco record (so far) to win the Grammy for Album of the Year, and one of only three soundtracks (besides The Bodyguard and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) to win that category. It was the number one album on the Billboard charts for the entire first half of 1978, and stayed on the charts until March 1980, long after the supposed death of disco."~Mental Floss
I remember seeing this movie as a teenager and I was shocked at the language. Apparently I was not the only one and they came out with a PG version. Other than John Travolta's solo dance scene, the movie was largely fogettable to me.
1977 did have some great movies: Star Wars, Close Encounters, Smokey and the Bandit, Slap Shot, The Rescuers and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
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