Eleanor's script for Dirty Dancing was rejected by every Hollywood studio, where cigar-smoking executives branded it "too light, too silly and too foolish." But for Eleanor, the film was about more ...

It’s been four years since a sequel to “Dirty Dancing” was announced, with Jennifer Grey set to reprise her role as Frances “Baby” Houseman from the 1987 original. The follow-up film was originally ...

Starring Jennifer Grey as teenage resort guest Frances "Baby" Houseman and the late Patrick Swayze as enigmatic dance instructor Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing has become a pop culture mainstay — ...

Dirty Dancing is one of the most nostalgic movies of all time. Released on Aug. 21, 1987, this classic from director Emile Ardolino and screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein follows sheltered teenager ...

A sequel to Dirty Dancing—the 1987 hit starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey—was announced back in 2020, and fans who have been patiently waiting are about to be rewarded. After years of ...

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and ...

"'Look what we did,'" Grey said of her would-be message to the late actor, who played Johnny Castle in the iconic 1987 flick. "We were playing kids and we were really young, in terms of where I sit ...

Mention the greatest hits of the 1980s, and movies like The Breakfast Club, Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Back to the Futurecome to mind. One particular title, released in 1987, has a cult ...

If “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” ends up on “Dirty Dancing” screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein’s tombstone, she swears she will come back from the beyond to destroy it. Though she wrote the line, she has ...