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Welcome to 'Summer Dreams', the fanlisting for the character Frances 'Baby' Houseman from the 1987 movie 'Dirty Dancing'. It is such a pleasure to bring this awesome fanlisting to you. Thank you so much to Nikie for letting me adopt it from her collective |
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About the movie... Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romance film which is credited as being one of the most watched films of all time.[2] Written by Eleanor Bergstein, the film features Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, 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. Approximately one third of the movie involves dancing scenes, and the finale is considered by many to be "the most goosebump-inducing dance scene in movie history." Originally a low-budget film by a new studio and with no major stars (at the time), Dirty Dancing became a massive hit. It has earned $US300 million worldwide, and was the first film to sell over one million copies on video.[4] The Dirty Dancing soundtrack is one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time, generating two multi-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, as well as a Grammy Award for best duet. In 2004, the film spawned a sequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as well as a stage version in 2005 which has had sellout performances in Australia, Germany, and the UK, and is scheduled to play in its first North American city, Toronto, in October 2007. In the summer of 1963, seventeen-year-old Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is vacationing with her wealthy, Jewish, suburban New York family at Kellerman's, a fictional resort in the Borscht Belt (a region of the Catskill Mountains of New York). Baby is the socially conscious member of the family, planning to attend Mount Holyoke College to study economics and then to enter the Peace Corps, and she does not feel she fits in with the traditional stereotypes that suit her older sister Lisa perfectly. Baby's father, Jake (Jerry Orbach), is resort owner Max Kellerman's personal physician, and right away the family receives special treatment, including giving their permission for Robbie, their dining room captain, to have a summer romance with Lisa. One evening, while at the family ballroom dance, Baby sees a Latin dance demonstration by the resort's dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) and his dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes). Johnny is by all standards a bad-boy rebel, part of the working-class staff whom all the resort-goers treat like their servants but whose good looks turn more than one female patron's head, including Baby's. Later on that same evening, while out for a walk, stirring music draws her to the staff quarters, where "dirty dancing" is all the rage. This raunchy dancing is up close and personal, not the stiff formal style people from her parents' generation are accustomed to. Here she gets a taste of the new dancing; Baby is hooked. Then, while out on a date with the smarmy Neil Kellerman — grandson of Max— Baby sees Penny crying in the kitchen, and it comes to light that Penny is pregnant by Robbie - the same Robbie whom Baby's sister Lisa is dating. After Baby approaches Robbie about the subject and learns of his plans to do nothing about the pregnancy, Baby 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 Shelldrake, a nearby resort where Johnny and Penny are annual performers. As Baby becomes Johnny's pupil in dance, tempers flare and sparks fly between the two of them. But the stakes begin to rise when Penny's abortion is botched and Baby goes to her father for help. He makes a mistaken assumption that Johnny was the cause of the pregnancy, and forbids Baby to have anything to do with the rest of Johnny's friends. Baby and Johnny must then keep their budding romance a secret. Events come to a head when Johnny is accused of robbing the husband of a female guest after he turned her down for sex. Baby volunteers herself to be Johnny's alibi, which, while clearing his name, also ends up costing him his job for having a relationship with a guest. Her selfless act inspires Johnny to realize that people can exhibit a higher standard of behavior than what he had come to believe. In the film's climactic scene, Johnny, even though he's been fired, returns to the resort to perform the final dance of the season with Baby. The film's most famous line by Johnny is "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," as he pulls her up from her seat at her parents' table, and her parents see her for the first time as more than their innocent teenage daughter. Jake admits his fault in his accusation towards Johnny for "getting Penny in trouble", and the film ends with an exciting dance sequence. Baby overcomes her fears to allow Johnny to lift her high into the air, and the formal ballroom is essentially transformed into a nightclub where the snobby upper-class patrons and the working-class kids bring together all their own styles of dance, proving that dance and music and above all love can transcend class barriers. |
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