"Saturday Night Fever" Starlet Is Stayin' Alive

Posted Aug 14th 2007 2:28PM by TMZ Staff

Disco may be dead but, believe it or not, John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" co-star isn't! More than a woman!
Karen Lynn Gorney
While the 1977 film made Travolta an international phenomenon, his female co-star, Karen Lynn Gorney (remembah huh?!), hustled off into obscurity. And that ain't no jive talkin'. Although disco duck John was a Scientolono-show, Karen, who played Tony Manero's dance partner, turned up at a special 30th Anniversary party for the dance classic in Manhattan on Monday. She finally made it out of Brooklyn!

While her career may have turned to dust, at least the 62-year-old is holding up better than Travolta's weave!

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1. FIRST! WHO THE HELL IS SHE?

Posted at 4:16PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Elisabitch Hasselcrack has tuna crotch

2. Has it really been 30 years??? God, I feel old. Still one of my most favorite movies.

Posted at 4:17PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Jill

3. This movie was just on over the weekend. Great flick! "I can walk you!" is one of my favorite lines.

Posted at 4:18PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Lein

4. Oh that last line was so cold. I always felt Stephanies role was a miscast, the rest of the casting was great but she was a plain looking boring woman and I think she looked to old for the role.

Posted at 4:22PM on Aug 14th 2007 by dawn

5. She looks great for 62! Good for her for comin' out for this event after 30 years.

I do agree with dawn, tho -- for some reason I always felt the casting was wrong. I never felt this actress was right for the part.

Posted at 4:26PM on Aug 14th 2007 by ...

6. She was the worst actress ever!! I couldn't believe that she was hired to do that film or any film. She absolutely ruined it.. not that the film was great, it was memorial in it's disco era theme.. but this goofy woman was not a graceful dancer, or into her role. It might be that John tried his best to make her look good as she did so little to help him, that he excelled what might have been awful climax of winning.. She just wasn't into it, other than to be there.. Watch it again and see her gawky-could care less only with gun pointed to the head performance, and be amazed.

Posted at 4:27PM on Aug 14th 2007 by BuzzedOFF

7. her web page is so sad and desperate. authentic autographed merchandise? sheese

Posted at 4:30PM on Aug 14th 2007 by you are entitled to my opinion

8. She was on All My Children when she got the role, everyone always talks about sophia coppolla as the worst cast but I think this was

Posted at 4:35PM on Aug 14th 2007 by dawn

9. LOVED ....LOVED... LOVED HER ON ALL MY CHILDREN!!

Posted at 4:44PM on Aug 14th 2007 by lo

10. Omg, way to go TMZ! This is "inneresting" journalism! Keep up with these stars that paved the way for all the actors and singers/dancers of today :) Great job. Thanks

Posted at 5:07PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Te Do

11. What happened to that other chick that was in Saturday Night Fever?

Posted at 5:09PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Trey

12. Casting was off on that movie..There ya got Fran Drescher aka The Nanny with a teeny part and Karen Lynn Gorney (no offense but she was lousy) get's the lead..That guy that played Double J was really good..He should have been a big star!

Posted at 5:13PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Darlene

13. I agree with a prior post.
Karen Lynn Gorney was miscast because she was both too old and could NOT EVEN DANCE.
She must have been sleeping with a producer to land such a major role in a dance movie. Or else how could Gorney have gotten through the dancing part of the audition if she could not dance?!
Also in my humble opinion, Gorney's NY accent was too phony and strong.

Posted at 5:32PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Sabrina

14. In my humble opinion, I loved the movie but Gorney couldn't dance and her acting was awful.
And she was too old and unattractive for the part.

Posted at 5:40PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Sabrina

15. In my humble opinion, I loved the movie but Gorney couldn't dance and her acting was awful.
And she was too old and unattractive for the part.

Posted at 5:41PM on Aug 14th 2007 by Sabrina

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