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HOT GALLERY: 27 Years Later, Looking Back at the Stars of Dirty Dancing
It’s just one of those movies that stays with you. Dirty Dancing was a love story, first and foremost, but not just between its leads (Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze); it’s an ode to the music and dance of the early ’60s. And, oh, the music: The soundtrack produced a big hit for star Patrick Swayze—“She’s Like the Wind”—as well as relaunching decades-old hits like “Cry to Me,” “Be My Baby,” and “Do You Love Me.” And that memorable final dance, set to “Time of My Life,” remains a touchstone of cinematic (and romantic) triumph, most recently making a seductive appearance in last year’s Crazy, Stupid, Love. Let’s look back at Dirty Dancing 27 years later... By Nina Hämmerling Smith
Jennifer Grey as Frances “Baby” Houseman in Dirty Dancing
Baby starts out as “very insecure about her physical being, about her body,” Grey explained in an interview in 1987. “She’s been very serious… and meets this guy who makes her aware of her sexuality, of the fact that she’s a woman.” Grey was no stranger to the Borscht Belt setting of Kellerman’s—her grandfather Mickey Katz was a comedian and musician in the ’50s. And as for dance? Her father is the famed actor-dancer-choreographer Joel Grey, whose role as the MC in Cabaret earned him both a Tony and an Oscar. Grey and Swayze “knew each other quite well” before shooting Dirty Dancing, having costarred previously in Red Dawn.
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July 28, 2018 at 4:55 am, A.H. Oostra said:
a beautifull, perfect actress for this role and she has a subtile kind of sex appeal that has its results on shy men like me.