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The Catskills that Bergstein remembered from the 1950s and ’60s had been replaced by a struggling local economy and a growing Orthodox population.
Aug 28, 2017 · It’s rather unnerving to talk with one of your idols, and when I called Eleanor Bergstein last week—the writer and co-producer of Dirty Dancing—I was unreasonably nervous.
Aug 21, 2017 · It was 30 years ago today that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey 's sleeper hit opened in theaters. Writer Eleanor Bergstein, who based the movie in part on her own experience as a teenage Mambo...
- Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey Weren’T First Picks For Lead Roles
- Your Favorite Scenes Probably Weren’T Planned
- It Wasn’T Summer When They Were Filming
- Patrick Swayze Was Battling A Knee Injury During Filming
- After The Film, Jennifer Grey Had A Procedure That Changed Her Career
- In Real Life, The Actors Were Far Older Than Their Characters
- The Movie Almost Had A Completely Different Name
- The Ending Was Almost Very Different Than The One We Know
- The Whole Film Was Created in Just Under Three Months
- Everyone Thought The Film Would Flop
Can you imagine Dirty Dancing without Jennifer Grey or Patrick Swayze? It’s absurd to even TRY. Outrageous as it may sound, these two weren’t actually the first choices for the film. Val Kilmer was initially offered the role of Johnny Castle, and bothSarah Jessica Parker and Sharon Stoneauditioned to play Baby. The film almost happened without Sway...
Everyone remembers the film’s linchpin musical montage. You know the one: Johnny and Baby are practicing the Mambo for the big show, and Baby has a hard time stifling her giggles while Johnny looks ongoingly frustrated. That wasn’t planned. You’re getting a real glimpse of Jennifer Grey being insanely ticklish and Patrick Swayze being fed up with h...
When you watch the film, you may feel a nostalgic twinge inside that reminds you of summers during your youth. You’ll probably be surprised to find that it was absolutely freezing outside during the filming of the movie. The movie was filmed during a cold autumn in Virginia and North Carolina. To create the feeling of summer, they had to spray pain...
In Swayze's book, The Time of My Life, he discusses an injury he suffered during his Broadway days that interfered with his dancing in the movie. Swayze was known for turning down roles because of a knee issue that was severe enough to put a halt to his career. But because Swayze was seen more as a “dancer-turned-actor,” he found it difficult to st...
Thanks to Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey catapulted to superstardom in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. It was during this time that Grey made a decision that would change her career forever. Grey had a rhinoplasty done in the early ‘90s, and many critics said that this decision derailed her acting career. Grey ended up having to go under the knife a se...
We see young adults playing teenagers all the time, and sometimes, it’s a little unrealistic. But inDirty Dancing, the age difference between the actors and the characters didn’t jar audiences that much. In the film, Johnny is 24, and Baby is 18. Jennifer Gray was 26 when she was cast as Baby, a character that was intended to be fresh out of high s...
Back when the film first came out in the late 1980s, the titleDirty Dancingwas a tad scandalous. The title became such an issue that censorship officers were hesitant and assumed it was a porn film. Thank goodness this was the chosen title given that the alternative was “I Was a Teenage Mambo Queen.” The studio stuck to their guns, and Dirty Dancin...
The line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” is one of the most iconic lines in film history. Can you imagine a world where this line didn’t exist to use at our leisure? Well, Patrick Swayze had a deep hatred for the line, and producers almost cut it completely. Swayze believed that the line was just TOO corny. In his book, The Time of My Life, Swayze ...
Yes, the entire movie was made in a short amount of time, and it had an incredibly tight budget. The film was put together in just under three months, which included two weeks for rehearsals. (It took only two weeks for the actors to get the complex dance movements down). The overall shooting of the footage was completed in 44 days, and we don’t ev...
The film officially wrapped on October 27, 1986. However, Vestron executives thought the movie would flop. During the test screening, 39 percent of viewers had no clue that there was a subplot about Penny's (Cynthia Rhodes) terminated pregnancy. After the testing, distributors were considering sending it straight to home video. However, the repeat ...
Sep 23, 2013 · To understand the Catskills’ golden years, Bergstein turned to hundreds of sources, including, first and foremost, dancer Michael Terrace, Bergstein’s Johnny Castle, who provided her with innumerable stories and unique access to the dancing world.
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Jan 25, 2017 · Bergstein found Swayze with director Emile Ardolino while paging through pictures of actors; Ardolino knew Swayze had trained as a dancer but had no dancing credits on his resume due to a knee...
Jun 24, 2022 · At one point in the film, there was an erotic dance between the two main characters as part of foreplay. Bergstein's dancing past inspired the scene, and she would show dance moves to the crew between takes. However, there was a problem with the movie at the time and his name was Ray Stark.
