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John Travolta an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, making him, at age 24, one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. His mother and his sister Ann appeared very briefly in "Saturday Night Fever" and his sister Ellen played a waitress in "Grease". Travolta performed several of the songs on the "Grease" soundtrack album. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film "Urban Cowboy", in which he starred with Debra Winger. After "Urban Cowboy", Travolta starred in a series of commercial and critical failures that sidelined his