History Trivia / DirtyDancing

"The fighting grew so intense that there was concern that it would ruin the movie's love scenes....If the actors weren't in the best mood, that might have had something to do with the weather. When filming started in September, the weather alternated between sweltering heat and pouring rain. It was so hot that dancers were passing out and elderly actress Paula Trueman had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for dehydration.\\

* CreatorBacklash: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner". Swayze hated the line and claimed he did everything in his power to get it cut.

* OldShame: The prequel was actress Romola Garai's first Hollywood film (she's English) and she repeatedly has cited the filming of the movie as being an extremely negative experience which caused her to re-evaluate working in Hollywood. In a 2004 interview with ''The Telegraph'', she explained that the filmmakers "were obsessed with having someone skinny. I just thought, why didn't they get someone like Creator/KateBosworth, if that's what they wanted?" Garai also later revealed that producer Harvey Weinstein, whose company, Creator/{{Miramax}}, was co-producing the film and held international distribution rights, had required her to meet him alone in a hotel room while he was wearing only a bathrobe in order to obtain the part: "I had to go to his hotel room in the Savoy, and he answered the door in his bathrobe. I was only 18. I felt violated by it, it has stayed very clearly in my memory."

** Producer Linda Gottlieb later served as executive producer on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' from 1991 until 1994.

* CriticalDissonance: Reviews were mixed. The [[MoralGuardians ever-reliable]] Creator/RogerEbert gave the movie a thumbs-down, derided the plot, and objected to the subplot involving an abortion. Oddly, Ebert didn't object to the act itself (or so he claimed), but rather the euphemisms with which some characters, like Jerry Orbach, avoided having to talk about it.

** Creator/SharonStone auditioned for Baby.

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Passions: #93
** AFIS100Years100Songs: #86, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
** AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes: #98, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

** When ''Havana Nights'' entered production, Creator/NataliePortman was the first choice for the role of Katey and Creator/RickyMartin was going to be cast as Javier.

** Writer and co-producer Eleanor Bergstein originally wanted her close friend, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Grey's father, Joel Grey, to play elderly resort guests and kleptomaniacs Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher, the actual culprits who stole Moe Pressman's wallet, but Westheimer dropped out when she discovered that the character was a thief and Joel Grey did not appear. Instead, the roles were played by Paula Trueman and Alvin Myerovitch.

* CreatorBacklash: "Nobody puts baby in a corner". Swayze hated the line and claimed he did everything in his power to get it cut.