Share Didi Conn as Frenchy, Jamie Donnelly as Jan and Dinah Manoff as Marty made up the rest of the Pink Ladies group. Although the movie came out in 1978 it is actually set exactly 20 years earlier and revolves around the 'greaser' youth culture of the 1950s. Who's who: In the original movie Stockard Channing played the Pink Ladies' queen bee Rizzo who suffers a crack in her sardonic exterior when she undergoes a pregnancy scare Quartet: Didi Conn as Frenchy (second from left), Jamie Donnelly as Jan (second from right) and Dinah Manoff as Marty (right) made up the rest of the Pink Ladies group