John Travolta’s star power was so overwhelming it led to the shutting down of filming on Saturday Night Fever.
The Grease star, 72, had become a television sensation through his role as Vinnie Barbarino in the hit sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter when filming began on Saturday Night Fever in Brooklyn in 1977 – and the film’s director John Badham has now revealed thousands of fans mobbed its locations while he was battling to make the classic movie.
