Frenchy’s pink hair is iconic now, but Didi Conn did not feel that way at the time. “Nobody had pink hair,” Conn, who played beleaguered Pink Lady Frenchy in 1978’s Grease, tells PEOPLE.

Frenchy’s pink hair is iconic now, but Didi Conn did not feel that way at the time. “Nobody had pink hair,” Conn, who played beleaguered Pink Lady Frenchy in 1978’s Grease, tells PEOPLE. “Nobody. I ...

Frenchy’s pink hair is iconic now, but Didi Conn did not feel that way at the time. “Nobody had pink hair,” Conn, who played beleaguered Pink Lady Frenchy in 1978’s Grease, tells PEOPLE. “Nobody. I ...

From left, Ari Notartomaso, Tricia Fukuhara, Cheyenne Isabel Wells and Marisa Davila play the title girl gang in “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” set four years before the “Grease” film ...

While the original Pink Ladies were defined by permed, pink, 1980s-inspired hair, Wanless tells Variety that her muses for the prequel were real-life people from the 1950s.

While the original Pink Ladies were defined by permed, pink, 1980s-inspired hair, Wanless tells Variety that her muses for the prequel were real-life people from the 1950s.