![]() A sequel is scheduled to be released in 2024, with Grey reprising her role. A made-for-TV remake was also released in 2017. The film's popularity led to a 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America. " (I've Had) The Time of My Life", performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It earned positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised the performances of Grey and Swayze, and its soundtrack, created by Jimmy Ienner, generated two multi- platinum albums and multiple singles. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.ĭirty Dancing premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 1987, and was released on August 21, 1987, in the United States, earning over $214 million worldwide, and was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. She finished the script in 1985, but management changes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put the film in development hell. She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film It's My Turn, but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became Dirty Dancing. The film was based on screenwriter Bergstein's own childhood. Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) at a vacation resort. ![]() Definitely worth googling them.Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. They have pools, putt putt, wonderful golf courses, lake tours, lunch and dinner cruises, a beach area, kids activities like marshmallow roasts and other planned activities and the boardwalk. Also let me recommend renting at the resort especially if you have kids. If you go to rumbling bald there is a marker on the golf course that indicates where the lift was filmed. It burnt a few years after the movie came out because of people using the cove to camp and party and leaving an unattended camp fire. The boys camp in firefly cove was the location for the resort employees and the party where baby carried the water melon. Many of thee broad lake scenes were then cut into the film and those were from the lake in Virginia where the hotel and dining hall were located. The actual lift scene was film in a small pond on the golf course at Rumbling Bald Resort because it was during cold weather and they were able to heat the pond. If you want to get your Instagram shot, though, you’ll have to make do at the Lake Lure Welcome Center down the road. From a boat, you can see the steps where Jennifer Grey practiced her dancing. Some ruins are there, but they’re back in a residential development called Firefly Cove, and it’s blocked by a big fence and a gate. The dining hall from the movie was from an abandoned boys’ camp, and it’s long since gone. I had my moment of joy.Įither way, though, there’s not much left of the actual Dirty Dancing set on the banks of Lake Lure. Maybe I was in the right place? Maybe not? I didn’t care. ![]() I took a beaming picture at what I assumed to be exact spot, only to notice later that the newspaper was not actually the same as the one in the movie. I found the place where Jim Carrey looks at an old newspaper headline about the moon landing and excitedly shouts “ We landed on the moon! ” as he walks out of the bar. But really, and I say this with love, who cares? Earlier this summer, I found myself at the hotel in Colorado where parts of Dumb & Dumber, the most formative movie of my youth, were filmed. The New York Times talked to Dirty Dancing ’s production designer a few years ago, who confirmed from notes that the lake lift happened in Virginia. This sort of confusion about movie filming locations tends to happen quite a bit. ![]()
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