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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. She was 72.

She died Thursday in Miami, family spokesperson Melissa Berthier announced. No cause of death was revealed.

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). She also starred opposite Sharon Stone in Wes Craven’s Deadly Blessing (1981).

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. She often is the butt of jokes from the Pink Ladies and T-Birds and called the “bad...

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Movie composer John Strauss has died at the age of 90.

The music editor, who worked on films including Oscar-winning Amadeus, passed away at a nursing home in Los Angeles on Monday night.

The New York native died from complications with Parkinson's disease, according to his son Larry.

Strauss was known for his work on TV theme tunes for 1960s shows Car 54 and Where Are You?

He then went on to become music editor for several Woody Allen films, including Take the Money and Run, as well as 1972's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask).

Throughout his career, Strauss also worked as a music co-ordinator and briefly starred in Amadeus, for which he won a Grammy for its soundtrack album.

He was also awarded an Emmy for his work on TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes.