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15 Things Baby Wouldn’t Want You to Know About ‘Dirty Dancing’

10. The title of the film came before the plot

Producer Lisa Gottlieb and writer Eleanor Bergstein met for lunch to throw around ideas after Bergstein’s initial concept wasn’t working. “I said, ‘Well what’s the story?’ And she said, ‘I don’t really have a story, but it should involve Latin dancing…’ So I switched the subject and said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ She said, ‘I grew up in Brooklyn, my father was a doctor, I was one of those kids who used to go across the tracks to go dirty dancing.’ I said, ‘That’s a million-dollar title! Now we’ll figure out the story.’ We invented Johnny Castle at lunch.”

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