Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend Penny is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get .. Read more
| Starring | Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes, Jerry Orbach |
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| Director | Emile Ardolino |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Late actor Patrick Swayze is to be remembered by residents of the North Carolina community where he filmed Dirty Dancing. Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Monday (14Sep09), aged 57, after a life spent wowing movie audiences with great roles, but his best remembered will always be 1987 love story Dirty Dancing, in which he played summer camp dance teacher Johnny Castle. Much of the low-budget movie was filmed in the town of Lake Lure and community members have organised a... Read more
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi is to give her first indepth interview since the death of the actor to Oprah Winfrey. The dancer will appear on Friday's (30Oct09) Oprah in America for a one-to-one about her late husband, who lost his battle with cancer in September (09). Niemi, who was married to Swayze for 34 years, co-wrote biography The Time of My Life with Swayze before his death. She made her first public appearance since the Dirty Dancing star's death on Tuesday (27Oct09) at the Women's Read more
A scene from the 1980s romantic movie Dirty Dancing has been voted as the best movie moment of all-time. Mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson carried out a survey of 1,200 film fans, and many movies considered as classics were shunned for more recent releases. The Dirty Dancing scene where Patrick Swayze lifts Jennifer Gray from the water came top of the list, followed by Harrison Ford's shooting of a skilled swordsman in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. An alien bursting out of John Hurt's stomach... Read more
Patrick Swayze was left seething on the set of Dirty Dancing - because Jennifer Grey kept ruining their scenes by bursting into bouts of laughter. The pair played star-crossed lovers in the hit 1987 romantic movie, but Swayze admitted Grey could sometimes be difficult to work with. In his forthcoming autobiography, The Time of My Life, he wrote, "We did have a few moments of friction when we were tired or after a long day of shooting. (Grey) seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting... Read more
Patrick Swayze will be remembered on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars - the U.S. show's professionals will perform interpretive dances to the music from his hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost. The dancer/actor, who lost his battle with cancer on Monday (14Sep09), was a guest teacher on the first series of the hit series in 2005. He'll be honoured during an episode on 23 September (09). A spokesman for the show says, "He inspired many people and many of our pros to dance." Read more