No Help From Friends
When the producers toyed with the idea of asking Eleanor Bergstein’s real life dance partners to be part of the film, she candidly revealed “My old partners are either in jail or out on parole … it was a very rough neighborhood.” While the original dirty dancers were not able to feature in the hit movie, they certainly inspired the unforgettable characters and gave the movie the raw authenticity that made it such a classic.
No Help From Friends
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