Dirty Dancing
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{{Infobox_Film
|name = Dirty Dancing
|image = Dirty Dancing.jpg
|caption = ''Dirty Dancing'' film poster
|director = [[Emile Ardolino]]
|writer = [[Eleanor Bergstein]]
|starring = [[Jennifer Grey]]<br>[[Patrick Swayze]]<br>[[Jerry Orbach]]<br>[[Cynthia Rhodes]] |
|producer = [[Linda Gottlieb]]
|editing = Peter C. Frank
|distributor = [[Vestron Pictures]]
|released = [[August 21]], [[1987]]
|runtime = 100 minutes
|language = English
|budget = $5,000,000<ref name=guardian>{{cite web|author=Vernon, Polly|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1868781,00.html |title="Hey Baby – we're all Swayze now"|date=2006-10-10| work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=2007-05-15}}</ref>
|followed_by = ''[[Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights]]''
|website=http://www.dirtydancing.com/site.php
|amg_id = 1:13874
|imdb_id = 0092890
}}
'''''Dirty Dancing''''' is a [[1987 in film|1987]] [[romance film]] credited as being one of the most watched films of all time.<ref name=obsession/> Written by [[Eleanor Bergstein]], the film features [[Jennifer Grey]], [[Patrick Swayze]], [[Cynthia Rhodes]], and [[Jerry Orbach]]. The story details the moment of time that a teenaged girl crosses over into womanhood both physically and emotionally, through a relationship with a dance instructor during a family summer vacation. Around a third of the movie involves [[dancing]] scenes choreographed by [[Kenny Ortega]] (later famous for ''[[High School Musical]]''), and the finale has been described as "the most goosebump-inducing dance scene in movie history".<ref name=guardian/><ref name=bbc/>
Originally a low-budget film by a new studio and with no major stars (at the time), ''Dirty Dancing'' became a massive box office hit. As of 2007, it has earned $300 million worldwide. It was the first film to sell over a million copies on home video, and the [[Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)|''Dirty Dancing'' soundtrack]] generated two multi-[[Music recording sales certification|platinum]] albums and multiple singles, including "[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]", which won both the [[Golden Globe]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], and a [[Grammy Award]] for best duet. The film spawned a 2004 sequel, ''[[Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights]]'', as well as a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America, with plans to open on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].
==Plot summary==
In the summer of 1963, 17-year-old New Yorker Frances "Baby" Houseman ([[Jennifer Grey]]) is vacationing with her [[affluent]] [[Jewish]] family at Kellerman's, a resort in the [[Catskill Mountains]]. Baby is planning to attend [[Mount Holyoke College]] to study economics and then to enter the [[Peace Corps]]. She was named after [[Frances Perkins]], the first woman in the [[List of first women to hold U.S. Cabinet Secretaryships|U.S. Cabinet]]. Baby's father, Jake ([[Jerry Orbach]]), is the personal physician of the resort owner Max Kellerman ([[Jack Weston]]).
Baby develops a crush on the resort's dance instructor Johnny Castle ([[Patrick Swayze]]), part of the working-class entertainment staff. When Baby is invited to one of their parties, she observes for the first time the "[[Mambo (dance)|dirty dancing]]" that the staff enjoys. Later, Baby discovers that Johnny's dance partner Penny Johnson ([[Cynthia Rhodes]]) is distraught over becoming pregnant by Robbie Gould ([[Max Cantor]]), the waiter whom Baby's sister Lisa is dating. When Baby learns that Robbie plans to do nothing about the pregnancy, she secures the money from her father to pay for Penny's illegal [[abortion]]. In her efforts to help, Baby also becomes Penny's fill-in for a performance at the Sheldrake, a nearby resort where Johnny and Penny perform annually.
[[Image:Dirty-dancing-coverx-large.jpg|left|thumb|275px|A scene from the dancing finale, as Baby overcomes her fears, and trusts both in Johnny, and in herself, to allow him to lift her high in the air. This has been described as "the most goosebump-inducing dance scene in movie history".<ref name=guardian/><ref name=bbc/>]]
As Baby becomes Johnny's pupil in dance, tempers flare and a romance begins to develop. Their performance at the Sheldrake goes reasonably well, though Baby is too nervous to accomplish the dance's climactic lift. When they return to Kellerman's, they learn that Penny's backstreet abortion was botched, leaving Penny in agonizing pain. Baby brings her father, who is a doctor, to help, but he assumes that the pregnancy was caused by Johnny, and forbids Baby to have anything to do with him or his friends. Baby, however, defies her father and continues the clandestine affair. The relationship is revealed after Johnny is accused of stealing a wallet from one of the resort guests; to save him from being fired, Baby confesses that he could not have been responsible as she was with him in his cabin that night. Johnny is eventually cleared of the theft charge, but is still fired for having a relationship with a guest. However, Baby's selfless act inspires Johnny to realize that "there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them."<ref name=corner>Johnny: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner. Sorry about the disruption, 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 dancin' 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 want to be: Miss Frances Houseman."</ref>
In the film's climactic scene, Johnny, even though he has been fired, returns to the resort to perform the final dance of the season with Baby. He utters the film's most famous line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," as he pulls her up from her parents' table. Dr. Houseman learns that the true culprit in Penny's pregnancy was Robbie, not Johnny, and he apologizes (Robbie having accidentally confessed to his deed earlier in the scene, while talking to Dr. Houseman). The film ends with a major dance sequence, as Baby overcomes her fears to allow Johnny to lift her high into the air, and the room is transformed into a nightclub where everyone, staff and patrons, dances together.
===Plot analysis===
''Dirty Dancing'' has been described as a coming-of-age tale showing the passage from adolescence to adulthood, in a classic [[Monomyth|hero's journey]] format similar to [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]''. The hero, Baby, is an innocent who receives a call to adventure from a gatekeeper – one of the camp staff asking her in to the party – who invites her to cross a bridge (symbolically significant as it links different realms) and Baby passes into an unfamiliar world (the resort's staff and their more sensual dancing). Baby then proceeds through tests and trials (dancing lessons, taking the lead in dealing with Penny's abortion, preparing for and completing the performance at the Sheldrake, standing up for Johnny) to achieve personal growth, "knowledge acquired through personal experience". She is rewarded for her achievements, by sexual union with Johnny. At the end of the film she undergoes the supreme ordeal (dancing in front of her parents and the audience including the climactic lift), which she conquers, and is rewarded by being raised, both literally into the air and figuratively into divinity, demonstrating that the hero has achieved a new higher state of being, and has been permanently changed by the journey.<ref name=underworld/>
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==Production==
===Pre-production===
''Dirty Dancing'' is in large part based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood: She is the younger daughter of a Jewish doctor from New York, spent summers with her family in the Catskills, participated in "Dirty Dancing" competitions, and was herself called "Baby" as a girl. In 1980, Bergstein wrote a screenplay for the [[Michael Douglas]] film, ''[[It's My Turn]]''. However, the producers cut an erotic dancing scene from the script, much to her dismay. She then conceived a new story, focused almost exclusively on dancing. In 1984, she pitched the idea to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] executive Eileen Miselle, who liked it and teamed Bergstein with producer Linda Gottlieb. They set the film in 1963, with the character of Baby based on Bergstein's own life, and the character of Johnny based on the stories of [[Michael Terrace]], a dance instructor that Bergstein met in the Catskills in 1985 while she was researching the story. She finished the script in November 1985, but management changes at MGM put the script into [[Turnaround (film industry term)|turnaround]], or limbo. Bergstein then shopped the script around to other studios, but was repeatedly rejected until she showed it to Austin Furst, president of [[Vestron Pictures]], a new studio in [[Century City]], Vestron's vice-president Mitchell Cannold liked the story, as he too had spent some of his own childhood in the Catskills. He and fellow vice-president Dori Berinstein agreed to seek financing for the film, if an appropriate director could be found. Gottlieb and Bergstein chose [[Emile Ardolino]], who had won the 1983 [[Academy Award for Documentary Feature|Academy Award]] for the documentary, ''[[He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin']]''. Ardolino had never directed a feature film, but was extremely passionate about the project, even sending a message from where he was sequestered in jury duty, insisting that he was the best choice as director. The film was approved, and budgeted at the relatively low amount of $5 million, at a time when the average cost for a film was $12 million.<ref>{{cite video |people=Bergstein, Eleanor, producer |year2=2007 |title=Dirty Dancing: 20th anniversary |format=DVD |publisher=Lions Gate | quote=Tribute to Emile Ardolino }}</ref>
For choreographer, Bergstein chose [[Kenny Ortega]], who had been trained by the legendary dancer [[Gene Kelly]].<ref name=ode>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/16/DD168837.DTL |title=Choreographer Kenny Ortega's ode to disco|date=2003-01-16|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Hartlaub, Peter }}</ref> For a location for the film, they did not find anything suitable in the Catskills, so they decided on a combination of two locations: [[Lake Lure]] in [[North Carolina]], and [[Mountain Lake (Virginia)|Mountain Lake Resort]] near [[Roanoke, Virginia]], with careful editing making it look like all of the shooting was done in the same area.<ref name=asheville>{{cite news|title='Dirty Dancing' marks 20 years with return to big screen|date=2007-04-30|work=[[Asheville Citizen-Times]]|author=Clark, Paul|accessdate=2007-05-26}}</ref>
Director Ardolino was adamant that they choose dancers who could also act, as he did not want to use the "stand-in" method that had been used with the 1983 ''[[Flashdance]]''. For the female lead of Frances "Baby" Houseman, Bergstein chose the 26-year-old [[Jennifer Grey]], daughter of the Oscar-winning actor and dancer [[Joel Grey]] of the 1972 film ''[[Cabaret (film)|Cabaret]]''. They then sought a male lead, initially considering 20-year-old [[Billy Zane]], who had the visual look desired (originally the Johnny character was to be [[Italians|Italian]] and have a dark exotic look) but initial dancing tests when he was partnered with Grey did not meet expectations. The next choice was 34-year-old [[Patrick Swayze]], who had been noticed for his roles in ''[[The Outsiders (film)|The Outsiders]]'' and ''[[Red Dawn]]'', in which he had co-starred with Grey. Swayze was a seasoned dancer, with experience from the [[Joffrey Ballet]]. The producers liked him, but Swayze's agent was against the idea. However, Swayze read the script, liked the multi-leveled character of Johnny, and took the part anyway and Johnny was changed from being Italian to Irish. Grey was not happy about the choice, as she and Swayze had had difficulty getting along on ''Red Dawn.'' However, the two of them met, worked things out, and when they did their dancing screen test, the chemistry between them was obvious. Bergstein described it as "breathtaking".<ref name=story>''Dirty Dancing'', [[The E! True Hollywood Story]], first aired [[September 3]], [[2000]]</ref>
Other casting choices were [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] actor [[Jerry Orbach]] as Dr. Jake Houseman, Baby's father; and [[Jane Brucker]] as Lisa Houseman, Baby's older sister. Bergstein also attempted to cast her friend, sex therapist Dr. [[Ruth Westheimer]] to play Mrs. Schumacher, and Joel Grey as her husband. However, Westheimer backed out when she learned the role involved being a [[kleptomania]]c. The role went instead to 79-year-old Paula Trueman, and Joel Grey was not cast. Another role went to Bergstein's friend, New York radio personality [[Bruce Morrow|"Cousin Brucie"]]. Bergstein initially wanted him to play the part of the social director, but then later asked him to play the part of the magician. The part of the social director went to the then unknown [[Wayne Knight]] (of later ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' fame).<ref>{{cite news|title=You may know Wayne Knight whether you know you do or not|date=1992-11-07|author=Moore, Frazier|work=[[Chicago Tribune]] (AP)}}</ref> The part of Baby's mother was originally given to Lynn Lipton, and if you watch carefully in the beginning when the Houseman family first pulls into Kellerman's, Lipton is in the front seat for a few brief seconds; you can see her blonde hair, but that is the only indication. But she became ill during the first week of shooting and was replaced by actress [[Kelly Bishop]], who had already been cast to play Vivian Pressman, the highly sexed resort guest. Bishop moved into the role as Mrs. Houseman, and the film's assistant choreographer [[Miranda Garrison]] took on the role of Vivian.<ref name=dvd>{{cite video|year2=2007|title=Dirty Dancing: 20th anniversary|format=DVD|publisher=Lions Gate}}</ref><ref>Some scenes shot with Lipton in the role of Mrs. Houseman, can be viewed on the 20th anniversary ''Dirty Dancing'' 2007 DVD</ref>
===Filming===
[[Image:Otrada4.JPG|thumb|right|255px|A typical family resort in the [[Catskill Mountains]].]]
The tight schedule allowed only two weeks for rehearsal, and 44 days for filming as it was already the tail end of summer. The cast stayed in the same hotel at Mountain Lake Resort in [[Pembroke, Virginia]] (15 minutes from Virginia Tech), and rehearsals quickly turned into disco parties involving nearly every cast member, even non-dancers such as [[Jack Weston]].<ref>The hotel is the Mountain Lake Hotel, and it now offers "Dirty Dancing weekends." {{cite web|url=http://www.mountainlakehotel.com/ |title=Mountain Lake Hotel Home Page|accessdate=2008-03-04}}</ref> The dancing and drinking went on almost non-stop and, immersed in the environment, the lead actors, Grey and Swayze, began identifying with their characters. Bergstein built upon this, encouraging the actors to improvise in their scenes. She also built the sexual tension by saying that no matter how intimate or "grinding" the dance steps, that none of the dancers were to have any other kind of physical contact with each other for the next six months.<ref name=story/>
Filming started on [[September 5]], [[1986]], but was plagued by the weather ranging from pouring rain to sweltering heat. The outside temperature rose to {{convert|105|°F|°C}}, and with all the additional camera and lighting equipment needed for filming, the temperature inside could be as high to {{convert|120|°F|°C}}. According to choreographer Kenny Ortega, on one day 10 people passed out within 25 minutes of shooting. The elderly Paula Trueman collapsed and was taken to the local emergency room to be treated for dehydration. Patrick Swayze also required a hospital visit: insisting on doing his own stunts, he repeatedly fell off of the log during the "balancing" scene and injured his knee, so had to have fluid drained from the swelling.<ref name=story/>
Delays in the shooting schedule pushed filming into the autumn, which required the set decorators to spray-paint the autumn leaves green. The uncooperative weather then took a different turn, plunging from oppressive heat to down near {{convert|40|°F|°C}}, causing frigid conditions for the swimming scene. The crew wore coats, gloves and boots. Swayze and Grey had to go barefoot, strip down to light summer clothing, and repeatedly dive into the cold water.<ref name=asheville/> Grey later described the water as "horrifically" cold, and that she would not have gone in except that she was "young and hungry".<ref name=dvd/>
Relations between the two main stars varied throughout production. They had already had trouble getting along in their previous project, ''Red Dawn''. They worked things out enough to have an extremely positive screen test, but initial cooperation soon faded, and they were soon "facing off" before every scene.<ref name="story"/> There was concern among the production staff that the animosity between the two stars would endanger the filming of the love scenes. To address this, producer Bergstein and director Ardolino forced the stars to re-watch their initial screen-tests—the ones with the "breathtaking" chemistry. This had the desired effect, and Swayze and Grey were able to return to the film with renewed energy and enthusiasm.<ref name=dvd/>
Director Ardolino encouraged the actors to improvise, and often kept the cameras rolling even if actors went "off script". One example of this was the scene where Grey was to stand in front of Swayze with her back to him, and put her arm up behind his head while he trailed his fingers down her arm (similar to the pose that is seen in the movie poster). Though it was written as a serious and tender moment, Grey was exhausted, found the move ticklish, and could not stop giggling each time Swayze tried it, no matter how many takes Ardolino asked for. Swayze was impatient to finish the scene, and found Grey's behavior annoying. However, the producers decided that the scene worked as it was, and put it into the film complete with Grey's giggling and Swayze's annoyed expression. It became one of the most famous scenes in the movie, turning out, as choreographer Kenny Ortega put it, "as one of the most delicate and honest moments in the film."<ref name=story/>
===Post-production===
The shooting [[wrap (film industry)|wrapped]] on [[October 27]], [[1986]], both on-time and on-budget. No one on the team however liked the rough cut that was put together, and Vestron executives were convinced that the film was going to be a flop. In May 1987 the film was screened for producer [[Aaron Russo]]. According to Vestron executive Mitchell Cannold, Russo's reaction at the end was to say simply, "Burn the negative, and collect the insurance."<ref name=story/>
Further disputes arose over the question of whether a corporate sponsor could be found to promote the film. Marketers of the [[Clearasil]] acne product liked the film, seeing it as a vehicle to reach a teen target audience. However, when they learned that the movie contained an [[abortion]] scene, they asked for that part of the plot to be cut. As Bergstein refused, the Clearasil promotion was dropped. Consequently, Vestron promoted the film themselves and set the premiere on [[August 16]], [[1987]]. The Vestron executives had planned to release the film in theaters for a weekend, and then send it straight to [[home video|video]], since Vestron had been in the video distribution business before film production.<ref name=guardian/> Considering how many people disliked the film at that point, producer Gottlieb's recollection of her feelings at the time was, "I would have only been grateful, ''if'' when it was released, people didn't yell at me."<ref name=story/>
==Reception==
For the film's opening, the [[August 16]], [[1987]] edition of ''[[The New York Times]]'' published a major review, with a headline reading, "Dirty Dancing Rocks to an Innocent Beat." The ''Times'' reviewer called the film "a metaphor for America in the summer of 1963 – orderly, prosperous, bursting with good intentions, a sort of [[Yiddish]]-inflected [[Camelot]]."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40712F83A5C0C758DDDA10894DF484D81&showabstract=1 |title = 'Dirty Dancing' Rocks to an Innocent Beat |date=1987-08-16|author=Freedman, Samuel G. |work=[[The New York Times]]|page=A19|accessdate=2008-05-03}}</ref> Other reviews were more mixed: [[Gene Siskel]] gave the film a "marginal Thumbs Up" as he liked Jennifer Grey's acting and development of her character, while [[Roger Ebert]] gave it "Thumbs Down" due to its "[[idiot plot]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=1&subsec=1410|author=[[Gene Siskel|Siskel, Gene]], [[Roger Ebert|Ebert, Roger]]|title=Video review on ''Siskel & Ebert and The Movies''|date=1987-08-21|accessdate=2008-03-04}}</ref> calling it a "tired and relentlessly predictable story of love between kids from different backgrounds."<ref name=ebert>{{cite web|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19870821/REVIEWS/708210301/1023|author=Ebert, Roger|title=Review of ''Dirty Dancing''|work=[[Sun Times]]|date=1987-08-21|accessdate=2007-06-07}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'' magazine was lukewarm, saying, "If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965450,00.html|title=Teenage Turmoil|author=Schickel, Richard |date=1987-09-14|accessdate=2007-06-08|work=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]] magazine}}</ref>
Regardless of reviews, the film drew adult audiences instead of the expected teens, with viewers rating the film highly as "would watch this again."<ref name=dvd/> Many filmgoers, after seeing the film once, went right back into the theater to watch it a second time.<ref name=dvd/> Word-of-mouth promotion took the film to number 1 in the United States, and in 10 days it had broken the $10 million mark. By November, it was also achieving international fame. Within seven months of release, it had brought in $63 million, and boosted attendance in dance classes across America.<ref name=story/> It was one of the highest-grossing films of 1987, earning $170 million worldwide.<ref name=Age>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Arts/Private-dancers/2005/06/14/1118645804253.html|title=Private Dancers|date=2005-06-15|work=[[The Age]]|accessdate=2007-05-26}}</ref><ref name=underworld>{{cite web|url=http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/archives/documents/Wians.pdf|title=Baby in the Underworld: Myth and Tragic Vision in ''Dirty Dancing''|last=Wiams|first=William|date=2004-11-20|accessdate=2008-04-06|format=pdf}} </ref>
The film's popularity continued to grow after its initial release. It was the number 1 video rental of 1988,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Orlando Sentinel]]|date=1988-12-30|title=Sales|title=Home Video Top Cassettes of 88 from ''[[Billboard magazine]]''}}</ref> and became the first film to sell a million copies on video. When the film was re-released in 1997, ten years after its original release, Swayze received his own star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]],<ref name=nyt-1997/> and videos were still selling at the rate of over 40,000 per month.<ref name=nyt-1997>{{cite news|date=1997-08-17|author=Kolson, Ann |work=New York Times|page=2.11|title=Fairy Tale Without an Ending}}</ref> As of 2005, it was selling a million DVDs per year,<ref name=lion/> with over 10 million copies sold as of 2007.<ref name=usatoday>{{cite news|author=Snider, Mike|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-04-23-dirty-dancing_N.htm |title=Dirty Dancing: Baby's Out of the Corner|date=2007-04-23 | work=[[USA Today]] |accessdate=2007-05-26}}</ref>
A May 2007 survey by [[Sky Movies]] listed ''Dirty Dancing'' as number 1 on "Women's most-watched films", above the ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy, ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'', ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', and ''[[Pretty Woman]]''.<ref name=obsession>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6629907.stm | title=Star Wars 'is top film obsession' | date=2007-05-06|accessdate=2008-03-17|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> The film's popularity has also caused it to be called "the ''Star Wars'' for girls."<ref name=rewind>{{cite web|author=Alaway, Nick |url=http://www.fast-rewind.com/ddance.htm |title="Dirty Dancing"|date=2001-01-14|accessdate=2007-09-04|work=[[Fast Rewind]]}}</ref><ref name=bbc>{{cite web|author=Winterman, Denise|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6076808.stm |title="The Time of Your Life"|date=2006-10-24|accessdate=2007-05-15|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref name=cnn>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/10/25/insider.dirtydancing/index.html|title=The insider's guide to 'Dirty Dancing'|date=2006-10-25|accessdate=2007-05-26|publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> An April 2008 article in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' listed ''Dirty Dancing'' as number 1 on a list of "most romantic movie quotes ever", for Baby's line "I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."<ref>{{cite news|url= |title=From Bogart to McGregor: The top ten most romantic movie quotes ever|date=2008-02-01|accessdate=2008-05-03|work=[[Daily Mail]]|author=Yaqoob, Tahira|quote=I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you}}</ref> The film's music has also had considerable impact. The closing song, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" has been listed as the "third most popular song played at funerals" in the UK.<ref name=bbc/>
===Awards===
[[Image:JenniferGrey.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Jennifer Grey]] at the 1988 [[Academy Awards]]]]
* (won) [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], 1987
* [[Golden Globe Awards]], 1988<ref>{{cite news|title=Three films receive five Golden Globe nominations|date=1988-01-07|Bigelow, Bruce | publisher=Associated Press}}</ref>
** (won) [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]<ref name=campbell/>
** (nominated) [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical]]
** (nominated) [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical]]
** (nominated) [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical]]
* [[Grammy Awards]], 1988
** (won) [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal|Best Pop Performance by a Duo]]<ref name=chicago/>
** (nominated) [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Song written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media]]<ref name=campbell>{{cite news|title=On the way to a singing career, he found success as a songwriter|date=1988-03-21|work=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]]|author=Campbell, Mary (Associated Press)}}</ref>
* Three installments of the [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI 100 Years... series]]:
** 2002, [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions]], #93<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/tvevents/pdf/passions100.pdf|title=AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 PASSIONS America’s Greatest Love Stories|date=2002|accessdate=2008-03-13|publisher=AFI}}</ref>
** 2004, [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs]], #86 with the Academy Award-winning song "[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/tvevents/pdf/songs400.pdf|title=AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs|accessdate=2008-03-13|publisher=[[American Film Institute|AFI]]|format=pdf|date=2004}}</ref>
** 2005, [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes]], #98 for Johnny's famous line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner"<ref>{{cite news|title=AFI's top 100 movie quotes|work=[[CNN]]|date=2005-06-22}}</ref>
==Music==
{{seealso|Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)}}
Rehearsals for the dancing, and some of the filming, used music from Bergstein's personal collection of [[gramophone record|45]]s. When it came time to select actual music for the film, Vestron chose [[Jimmy Ienner]] as music supervisor. Ienner, who had previously produced albums and songs for [[John Lennon]] and [[Three Dog Night]], opted to stick with much of the music that had already been used during filming, and obtained licenses for the songs from Bergstein's collection. He also enlisted Swayze to sing the new song "She's Like the Wind." Swayze had written the song a few years earlier with Stacy Widelitz, originally intending for it to be used in the 1984 film ''[[Grandview, U.S.A.]]''.<ref name=story/>
The movie's [[incidental music]] score was composed by [[John Morris (composer)|John Morris]]. The Kellermans' song that closes the talent show scene had lyrics written specifically for the film,<ref name=dvd/> and was sung to the tune of ''[[Annie Lisle]]'', a commonly-used theme for school alma maters.<ref>{{cite news|title=School searches for song of itself|date=2007-12-26|author=Gardinier, Bob|work=[[Times Union]]}}</ref> [[Kenny Ortega]] and his assistant Miranda Garrison chose the song for the finale by going through an entire box of tapes listening to each one. According to Ortega, literally the last tape that they listened to had "[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life|The Time of My Life]]", which they saw as the obvious choice.<ref name=campbell/> Ienner then insisted that [[Bill Medley]] and [[Jennifer Warnes]] record it. The song won the 1988 [[Grammy Award]] for Best Duet, an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], and the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song]].<ref name=campbell/><ref name=chicago>{{Cite news|date=1988-06-26|title=Dirty Dancing: The movie, the music, the money|author=Hoekstra, Dave |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref>
The film's soundtrack started an [[oldies]] music revival,<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Martial Arts Film|author=Lott, M. Ray|pages=71|date=2004|publisher=[[McFarland]]|isbn=0786418362}}</ref> and demand for the album caught [[RCA]] by surprise. According to Previte, before a single had even been released, there were a million albums on back-order.<ref name=story/> The [[Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)|''Dirty Dancing'' album]] spent 18 weeks at number 1 on the [[Billboard 200]] album sales charts and went platinum eleven times, selling more than 39 million copies worldwide.<ref name=Age/> It spawned a follow-up multi-platinum album in February 1988, entitled ''[[More Dirty Dancing]]'', selling 32 million copies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=8624|title=Zuma Beach Ent. Appointments President and Completes Acquisition|date=2005-03-03|publisher=whedon.info|accessdate=2007-06-28}}</ref>
Songs from the album which appeared on the charts included:<ref name=campbell/>
* "[[(I've Had) The Time of My Life]]", performed by [[Bill Medley]] and [[Jennifer Warnes]], composed by [[Franke Previte]], John deNicola, and Donald Markowitz – this song rose to number 1 on the pop charts<ref name=billboard>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=684704&aid=64851||title=Dirty Dancing discography|publisher=Billboard.com|accessdate=2008-03-06}}</ref>
* "[[She's Like the Wind]]", performed by lead actor Patrick Swayze, composed by Swayze and Stacy Widelitz
* "[[Hungry Eyes]]", performed by [[Eric Carmen]], composed by Franke Previte and John deNicola
==Legacy==
[[Image:Dirty-dancing-corner.jpg|right|thumb|The iconic scene where Johnny says, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."<ref name=corner/>]]
The film's huge success had the paradoxical effect of backfiring on some of the participants. Patrick Swayze was routinely parodied in the media, and in 1989, received two nominations for worst actor from the [[Razzie Award for Worst Actor|Golden Raspberry]] awards, for his performances in [[Next of Kin (1989 film)|''Next of Kin'']] and [[Road House (1989 film)|''Road House'']]. But in 1990, Swayze again had success in ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'' with [[Demi Moore]] and [[Whoopi Goldberg]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The highest grossing films in Australia|date=2005-08-02|accessdate=2008-04-08|author=Dale David |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> Grey, for her part, had plastic surgery in the early 1990s, which changed her nose and made her face nearly unrecognizable from her "Baby" character. She was never able to find a role which matched the success that she had in ''Dirty Dancing''.<ref>{{cite news|title=It's Like, Uh ... Jennifer Grey|author=Hamilton, Kendall |work=[[Newsweek]]|date=1999-03-22|page=73–74}}</ref> As for the studio, despite the film's huge monetary success, Vestron followed it up with a series of flops, and ran out of money. Vestron's parent company [[Vestron Video|Vestron Inc.]] went bankrupt in 1990,<ref name=story/> and was bought out in January 1991 by [[LIVE Entertainment]] for $26 million. The rights to Dirty Dancing passed to [[Artisan Entertainment]], and later to [[Lions Gate Films|Lionsgate]].<ref name=lion>{{cite news|url=http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/sandybrown/10232495.html|title=Lions Gate grabs Swayze Rights|date=2005-07-14|author=Brown, Sandy|publisher=TheStreet.com|accessdate=2008-03-17}}</ref>
[[Jerry Orbach]], already known as a successful Broadway actor, continued in different genres. He was the voice of the candelabra "[[Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast)|Lumiere]]" in the 1991 Disney animated film, ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' and then took on his best-known role, detective [[Lennie Briscoe]] on ''[[Law & Order]]'', which he played from 1992 until his death in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|title=Master actor exits to ringing applause|date=2005-01-10|work=[[Newcastle Herald]]}}</ref> Choreographer [[Kenny Ortega]] went on to choreograph other major pictures such as the 1992 ''[[Newsies]]''<ref name=ode/> and starting in 2006, the ''[[High School Musical]]'' series.<ref>{{cite news|title=How a Disney made-for-TV movie suddenly became ... A 'high school' craze|date=2007-01-21|work=[[St. Louis Post Dispatch]]|author=Newmark, Judith }}</ref> He also became a director of film and television, including several episodes of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', in which ''Dirty Dancing''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Kelly Bishop had a starring role.<ref name="gg">[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238784/fullcredits Full cast and crew for ''Gilmore Girls''] on [[Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved on [[2008-04-12]].</ref>
Various images and lines from the film have worked their way into popular culture. Johnny Castle's line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" has been used in song lyrics, and was the title of [[Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner|an episode]] of the TV series ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.
Popular pop-punk band, "[[Fall Out Boy]]" named one of the song on "[[From Under The Cork Tree]]", ''Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner''
==Alternate versions==
===Stage version===
[[Image:Dirty Dancing 2.jpg|right|thumb|Poster for stage version in Germany, 2006.]]
The movie was adapted for the stage in 2004 as a musical, ''Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage''. Produced by Jacobsen Entertainment for $6.5 million, it was written by Eleanor Bergstein and had the same songs as the film, plus a few extra scenes. Musical direction was by [[Chong Lim]] (composer for the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in Sydney), and the initial production starred [[Kym Valentine]] as Baby, and [[Sydney Dance Company]]'s Josef Brown as Johnny. Although reviews were mixed,<ref name=cnn/> the production was a commercial success, selling over 200,000 tickets during its six-month run.<ref name=Age/> It has also had sellout runs in [[Germany]], and in London's West End, where it opened at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] on [[October 23]], [[2006]] with the highest pre-sell in London history, earning £6 million ($US12 million).<ref name=guardian/><ref name=bbc/><ref name=cnn/> As of early 2008, over 350,000 people have seen the musical in London, with ticket sales of £40 million ($US80 million), selling out for months in advance.<ref name=usatoday/> Josef Brown of Australia continues to play the role of Johnny Castle in London, while Georgina Rich made her musical debut as Baby. The show is scheduled to continue its run in London's [[West End theatre|West End]] through April 2009, and was scheduled to open in the Netherlands in the city of [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]] in March 2008.
A [[New York]] production is in the planning stage,<ref name=cnn/> with the show first starting in other North American cities. It broke box office records in May 2007 for its first such venue, selling $1.8 million on the first day of ticket sales in [[Toronto, Canada]]. The production opened on [[November 15]], [[2007]] at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with an all-Canadian cast. After Toronto, plans are to expand to [[Chicago]] in Fall 2008,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dirtydancingtour.com/dd.htm|title=Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage|accessdate=2008-03-17}}</ref> followed by [[Boston]], [[Los Angeles]] and possibly [[San Francisco]] before moving to [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Sams, Christine |date=2007-05-07|title=Dirty moves directed at US|accessdate=2007-05-26|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/dirty-moves-directed-at-us/2007/05/06/1178390120944.html}}</ref>
===Other versions===
''Dirty Dancing'' has appeared in other forms than the stage version. In 1988, a music tour named ''Dirty Dancing: Live in Concert'' featuring [[Bill Medley]] and [[Eric Carmen]],<ref name=campbell/> played 90 cities in three months.<ref name=story/> Also in 1988, the [[CBS]] network launched a ''[[Dirty Dancing (1988 TV series)|Dirty Dancing]]'' television series, however with none of the original cast or staff. The series was cancelled after only a few episodes.
In 2004, a sequel to the film was released, ''[[Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights]]''. Although not a remake, ''Havana Nights'' showcases a similar storyline about an American teenager learning about life through dance, when her family relocates to [[Havana, Cuba]] just before the [[Cuban Revolution]]. Patrick Swayze was paid $5 million to appear in a cameo role as a dance teacher – considerably more than the $200,000 he earned for the original version.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Tulsa World]]|date=[[1989-11-05]] |title=Movie Notes|Author=Knight-Ridder Newspapers}}</ref>
For the 20th anniversary in 2007, the film was re-released in theatres with additional footage, while the original film version was re-released on DVD with deleted scenes and writer commentary.<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=2007-06-24 |url=http://www.codemasters.com/dirtydancing/|title=Dirty Dancing Video Game – official site |publisher=[[Codemasters]]}}</ref> At the same time, [[Codemasters]] released ''Dirty Dancing: the Video Game''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/05/coming_soon_to_.html |title=Coming soon to your PC: Dirty Dancing, the Video Game |date=[[2007-05-29]] |accessdate=2007-06-24 |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] blog network|author=Arendt, Susan }}</ref> In the [[United Kingdom]] the anniversary was marked by a reality TV show based on the film, ''[[Dirty Dancing:The time of your life]]'', filmed at the Mountain Lake resort.
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