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Susan Buckner, Who Played Cheerleader Patty Simcox in ‘Grease,’ Dies at 72
Susan Buckner, the actress and dancer best known for her turn as Patty Simcox in the 1978 blockbuster musical Grease, has died. She was 72.
Susan Buckner, the actress and dancer best known for her turn as the bubbly and often-teased Rydell High cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 blockbuster musical Grease, has died. Buckner portrayed Hollywood bad girl Jean Harlow alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the 1977 CBS telefilm The Amazing Howard Hughes and was one of the dancers/synchronized swimmers known as the Kroffettes on The Brady Bunch Hour(the 1976-77 ABC variety show was created by Sid and Marty Krofft). In Grease, directed by Randal Kleiser at Paramount, Buckner’s Patty convinces Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy Olsson, a new student, to try out for the cheerleading squad.
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