Movie:dirty Dancing

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    'Dirty Dancing' rehearsal footage reveals Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey's amazing chemistry

    There’s a lot of chemistry, and no “spaghetti arms,” in this rare footage of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey’s Dirty Dancing screen test. This Yahoo Movies exclusive clip, taken from a new featurette on the 30th anniversary Dirty Dancing Blu-ray, shows the two stars getting to know each other as they work through some dance steps. Swayze, an experienced ballet dancer by the time he made the film, instructs Grey to lift her chest so he doesn’t hurt her ribs. “It hurts my ribs,” she replies, gi

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    Flashback: 'Dirty Dancing' screenwriter on casting Patrick Swayze and that abortion plot line

    Eleanor Bergstein would like to clear something up: Patrick Swayze was the only actor ever considered for the lead in Dirty Dancing. The screenwriter of the beloved 1987 film has seen one too many listicles claiming that Val Kilmer or Billy Zane was the filmmakers’ first pick for Johnny Castle, the working-class dance instructor who falls for idealistic teenager Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) at a Catskills resort in the early 1960s. “Patrick was the only actor who was ever offered this, and he

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    'Dirty Dancing' Coming Back to Theaters For 30th Anniversary

    On Jan. 29 and Feb. 1, catch the '80s favorite starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey on the big screen

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    Jennifer Grey Won't Recreate That 'Dirty Dancing' Scene: 'I'm Too F---ing Old!'

    The 55-year-old actress, who’s in Amazon’s new ‘80s-set comedy Red Oaks, has been in plenty of movies and TV shows since starring in 1987’s hit romance Dirty Dancing.