In one of his first motion picture roles, John Travolta played a young disco dancer named Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. This was in 1977, the height of the disco era. In the story, Tony meets another dancer named Stephanie and they practice together to compete in a dance competition.
Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a leading role for the part of Tony Manero but lost the award to Richard Dreyfuss, who won for “The Goodbye Girl”.
In another tremendously well-liked movie from those times, John Travolta starred as Buford “Bud” Uan Davis, a small-town cowboy who goes to Houston to work and live. While in Houston, he starts hanging out at a neighborhood club called “Gilley’s” that is own by the famous singer, Mickey Gilley.
He falls in love with “Sissy” (Debra Winger) and he tries to win a contest for riding a mechanical bull at Gilleys. Mechanical bulls could be found at many clubs around the country for a while after “Urban Cowboy”. This movie and role was a great hit but it took many years and a few botched box office movies before we saw much of John Travolta again.
However, by 1994 Travolta had again caught the eye of the public by starring in the famous film, “Pulp Fiction” as Vincent Vega, a mob hitman. The movie also starred Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino directed it. The movie was a enormous box office success and also achieved critical acclaim.
Travolta was for a second time nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role however, this time the Oscar went to Tom Hanks for playing “Forrest Gump”.
Numerous other movies have also starred John Travolta including the sentimental favorites, “Michael” and “Phenomenon” both from 1996. You can download any Travolta movie or any other film that you wish to watch tonight right now with just a touch of a button.
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