‘Dirty Dancing’ 30th Anniversary Celebration at Resort that Inspired Film
They’ll celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘Dirty Dancing’ this weekend, near the real life resort that inspired it.
FOX’s Lisa Brady reports:
It was the summer of 1987 when ‘Dirty Dancing’ took us back to the summer of ’63…
(Dirty Dancing) “I’ve had the time of my life.”
The movie about a Jewish girl vacationing with her family in upstate New York was based on a screenplay by Brooklyn native Eleanor Bergstein, inspired by her family’s time a real Catskills resort, Grossinger’s.
That’s now abandoned… But the nearby Hurleyville Arts Centre plans a fashion show, a talk with a former Grossinger’s dance instructor and, of course a screening of the movie.
(Dirty Dancing) “Nobody puts baby in the corner.”
And though it’s now a classic, it was a low budget movie filmed not in the Catskills, but at Virginia’s Mountain Lake Hotel, which offers several ‘Dirty Dancing’ themed weekends each summer.
Lisa Brady, FOX News.
