Last week Dirty Dancing was on t.v. and I can’t get the film out of my head. It’s rare that I do film trivia, but decided Dirty Dancing is the perfect summer nights flick to revisit. I remember the film coming out. I was only 11 when the film came out and I remember all the talk about how risky and sexual it was…wow times have changed huh? The soundtrack was so good. How sexy was Patrick Swayze (oh Johnny). The clothes inspired us to start wearing bermuda shorts again. I even went to the “Dirty Dancing Tour,” which was a concert with dancers and singers from the film lol. If you’ve never seen the film, please do yourself a favor and get it on Netflix. If you have, isn’t it about time to revisit it? I’d love your thoughts on it. Have a fabulous Sunday all!
—The song “She’s Like The Wind,” originally written for Grandview, U.S.A., was later used in this movie instead.
—Throughout the film, Johnny and Baby always wear contrasting colors: Baby wears very light colors, and Johnny wears black or something very dark.
—The dancing that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey do during the love scene was actually the same dance that they did for the screen tests. It was not originally supposed to be in the film.
—In the scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing dancing, and she keeps laughing when he runs his arm down hers, it was not part of the scene; she was actually laughing and his frustration was genuine. They left it because it was effective. Her falling over in this scene was unplanned too.
—The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasn’t intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but the director liked it so much he kept in the film.
—While the exteriors and cabin scenes were filmed at Mountain Lake in Virginia, the lake scene was filmed at Lake Lure in North Carolina in October. There are no close-ups because the actors were so cold that their lips were blue.
—Jennifer Grey, at 27, was 10 years older than the character of Baby. During her audition, she had 5 minutes to prove she could play younger, and that she had the moves for the role.
—Patrick Swayze had to convince Jennifer Grey to be in this film, because she had disliked him so much while filming Red Dawn.
—Toward the end of the movie, Lisa, Mr. Kellerman, and several others sing an anthem to the Kellerman’s resort (“Join hands and hearts and voices/ Voices, hearts and hands…”) in the talent show. This song’s lyrics were written for the movie, but the tune is a traditional one (known variously as “Amici” or “Annie Lisle”) from the early 1800s that has been used as the basis for the alma maters for many well-known American universities, including Cornell University, The University of Alabama, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
All trivia courtesy of IMDB
I didn’t appreciate this movie when I was younger, but I certainly do now.
I love it when certain scenes weren’t intended to be in the movie. Those are the best kind!
Love this movie!
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This was the best movie of all time. It was my first “adult” movie at 12, I watched it on VHS. My life was rocked by this. Dirty dancing FOREVER.
Fantastic recap. One of my favorite “blast from the past” movies.
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