And while The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ends hopefully - with the teenage patient finally stepping outside in pursuit of love - Vetter would not survive to adolescence. Still, Vetter never experienced the freedom of Travolta’s Tod.
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A year after the movie came out, though, NASA designed a special space suit that allowed Vetter to travel eight feet outside his bubble. “David laughed at the idea that his character could simply wear the space suit back into the isolator without contaminating the bubble,” wrote Steve McVicker, who chronicled Vetter’s life for the Houston Press in 1997.
The next year, he achieved peerless fame with Saturday Night Fever and maintained his hot streak with Kleiser’s classic Grease.īut Vetter, who inspired The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, was apparently not a fan. That same month, Carrie was released in theaters, featuring Travolta in a supporting (and evil) role. The actor first found fame on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, a year before The Boy in the Plastic Bubble premiered on the same network.
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In addition to spawning hokey TV copycats, the movie presaged Travolta's rise to superstardom. Hers was one of four nominations earned by The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which proved to be an overall hit.
Six months later, Hyland won a posthumous Emmy for her performance. Diana always wanted the world for me in every possible way."' I always feel she is with me - I mean, her intentions are. Reflecting that time, he added: "I gave her great joy in the last months of her life. Travolta stayed beside Hyland on her deathbed. We were like two maniacs talking all the time on the set of Bubble. "From the moment I met her, I was attracted. Speaking to People that year, Travolta referred to Hyland as his first love. “I thought I was in love before, but I wasn’t," he said.
In 1977, Hyland died suddenly of breast cancer at 41 years old. While filming, Travolta began a relationship with Hyland, 18 years his senior. O’Connor and Travolta sparked onscreen chemistry as budding young lovers, but it was Hyland whom the actor fell for behind the scenes. The film also costarred Diana Hyland and Robert Reed as the ever-loving Lubitch parents, Ralph Bellamy as Tod’s stalwart doctor and Glynnis O'Connor (of Ode to Billy Joe fame) as girl next door Gina Biggs. The project marked director John Randal Kleiser's first collaboration with Travolta, two years before Grease would cement both their legacies. Vetter was 5 when The Boy in the Plastic Bubble premiered on ABC on Nov. 12, 1976. Vetter’s highly publicized youth, which he spent entirely within the confines of specially sterilized chambers, captivated the country during the early ‘70s. The story was loosely based on the condition of real-life “bubble boy” David Vetter, who suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
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