Even though you've probably watched this classic love story with a dancing twist more times than you'd care to admit, we're here to tell you there's still a lot you might not know (lucky you!). Here are a few fun facts that'll excite even the biggest fans: 1. Patrick Swayze had to convince Jennifer Grey to accept the role.The two didn't get along while filming so she almost passed on the role of Baby until Swayze convinced her she would be making a mistake.
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Aug 21, 1987 Directed by Emile Ardolino. With Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes. Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family.
But still, the two stars still didn't get along perfectly this time either.In fact, where Johnny looks annoyed with Baby when rehearsing their choreographed dance wasn't staged — he really was frustrated that she kept laughing. We love that producers decided to keep it in the end.
It’s the 27th anniversary of Dirty Dancing—a little movie you may have heard of, about coming of age in a dance-obsessed 1960s Catskills resort. But it’s so much more than that—as if all that weren’t enough. Jennifer Grey’s Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman was everything you were and wanted to be, if you were a pre-teen girl who appreciated a good pair of denim cut-offs. She toggled between Daddy’s girl, and burgeoning feminist, rebelling against class divisions, while navigating a heart-palpitating dance-lationship with Patrick Swayze’s Johnny. The name Baby was ill-fitting, and likely the last time she allowed anyone to call her that, had she returned to the Catskills for another summer. Not after that lift.
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Lesson 11: If you stand up for what you believe in, you’re bound to make an impact on somebody else’s lifeJohnny: “Sorry for the interruption, folks, but I always do the last dance of the season. This year somebody told me not to. So I’m gonna do my kind of ‘ with a great partner, who’s not only a terrific dancer, but somebody who’s taught me that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them. Somebody who’s taught me about the kind of person I wanna be.
Miss Frances Houseman.”. And that is when Baby became Frances.Lesson 12: If there is one thing in life that’s true, it’s this:Johnny: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”Nobody.(Images courtesy of Artisan Entertainment).
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