![]() Rizzo dons a blond wig and begins her song satirizing the representations of sexuality in the fifties, "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, lousy with virginity, won't go to bed 'till I'm legally wed, I can't, I'm Sandra Dee." The Dee persona is instantly recognizable to audiences of the present and becomes a form of shorthand to convey a specific cultural trope. 1 At a pajama party Rizzo and the other "Pink Ladies" try to teach Sandy to drink and to smoke, but she promptly gets sick. The full head-shot photo showed a beautiful, seemingly ageless woman, while the headline copy read, "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee." The refrain is borrowed from a song in both the stage play and 1977 film Grease, which lampoons various high-school types of the 1950s, including "Rizzo," the hard-boiled, wisecracking, female sexual hood, and "Sandy" (no coincidence there), the naive, sweet cheerleader. ![]() The Maissue of People magazine featured a cover story on Sandra Dee. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įrontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 22.2 (2001) 87-106īeyond a White, Teen Icon Georganne Scheiner ![]()
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