Born into show biz, pretty dancer Jennifer Grey had her moment in the celebrity sun as Baby Houseman in the 1987 blockbuster movie Dirty Dancing, the movie that also propelled Patrick Swayze into stardom.
The movie revolved around Baby's coming of sexual age at a summer resort in the Catskills, tutored by the young but worldly dance instructor played by the rugged Swayze.
Grey has appeared in plenty of other movies and TV shows, including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Cotton Club and the TV series Friends, but Dirty Dancing made her celebrity.
She is the daughter of actor/dancer Joel Grey. In her big film, she had quite a honker but looked just fine with it. Thereafter, she had a nose job, which might well have been a mistake. She still looked pretty, of course, only less distinctive.
Dirty Dancing's memory lives at though it was yesterday at Virginia's Mountain Lake Resort, where it was filmed, and its broader public memory was extended by a 2004 re-make, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, made with new and younger stars. Even so, the remake is yet another proof that it is really, really hard to improve on a fine original.
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