Donna Mills claims it's a Sandy Grease project.
The TV icon, best known for his spin-off series Dallas Knots Landing, shared a Sunday video in which she dresses up as the heroine of the 1978 film musical, a role made famous by Olivia Newton-John. In the video, Mills says he is the "model" for the character.
"Is the character Sandy from Grease similar to mine? Therefore!" he wrote in the inscription.
"Did you know I go to school with Jim Jacobs?" he tells the camera in the video, citing the musical's co-writer. Mills added with a laugh that "he used me as his model for Sandy."
"I didn't know it then, but I found out years later," he said. "I'm the real Sandy."
Jacobs told The Buffalo News in 2010 how he and co-writer Warren Casey originally came up with the idea for Grease, calling it "one of those amazing dreams you have when you're halfway in the party bag."
"We were sitting in my apartment in '69, and it was a show party. At around 1 am, there were still some old pots lying on the floor," he recalls. "I'm tired of listening to Led Zeppelin or whatever; damn what I have on the turntable, and I dug up some of my old 45. It was a humble start." I've played Dion and the Belmonts, Little Richard and the Five Satins and said to Warren, "Wow, wouldn't it be hard to do a Broadway show with that kind of music instead of traditional music? The stuff from Brigadoon, Oklahoma we all know?" he added.
Grease follows the story of two teenagers who fall in love in the 1950s - Sandy and Danny Zuko (John Travolta in the film) - who meet during summer vacation and find each other again at the start of the school year while Sandy is attending Rydel High School students. The film also stars Jeff Conway, Stockard Channing, Barry Pearl and Didi Conn.
