"Grease" Actress Dies at 72

Actress Susan Buckner, best known for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 musical comedy Grease, is dead. She was 72.

“Susan died peacefully on May 2 surrounded by loved ones,” according to Melissa Berthier, a publicist for the family. No cause of death was provided.

Born in 1952 in Seattle, Buckner made a name for herself on the pageant circuit, winning Miss Washington in 1971 before she represented the state at the Miss America competition the next year.

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aids?

I never saw that movie, but I've heard it was pretty dumb. Yet it was supposedly the most successful film of the '70s. Just goes to show that people back then had no taste. Well, actually, they still don't.

in 1982 she stopped taking her clothing off in public, so......aids?

Aw, a small slice of Americana has left the stage for good. RIP, Susan Buckner, who put her own ambitions of a film career, for the sake of her children who she raised. A more honorable 'job', there isn't.