The famous men mentioned in the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" (Troy Donahue, Elvis Presley, Rock Hudson, and, in the original stage version, Sal Mineo) were all popular, highly desirable teen heartthrobs of the 1950s, so their presences in the song are supposed to represent a sarcastic reinforcement of Sandy's virtue and imperviousness to sexual temptation (the idea being that if even men as famously attractive as Donahue, Presley, Hudson, or Mineo couldn't tempt her into sexual impropriety, nobody could). However, there is a double meaning to the Hudson and Mineo mentions: both men were gay, though their homosexuality was not widely known outside of the gay community during either the time Grease was set (the 1950s) or first staged (the early 1970s). After Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985 (which essentially was what "outed" him as gay to the general public), the line "Even Rock Hudson lost / his heart to Doris Day" took on a new meaning.

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