Eleanor Bergstein
Dirty Dancing
...dances together. Dirty Dancing is in large part based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood: She is the younger daughter of a Jewish doctor from New York, spent summers...
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Jimmy Ienner
...1987 film Dirty Dancing. The film was originally shot to oldies songs from the personal collection of Eleanor Bergstein, the film's writer and producer. Ienner obtained licenses for the...
"This spot is reserved for Miss Bergstein." "It was not always so," says Bergstein, who grew up in "a very rough and tough neighbourhood" in Brooklyn, New York, where she discovered R&B music aged 14. "From then on, I was hooked and the dancing followed,"
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Richard Dempsey
...Assembly and Propeller ).''' In 2007 Richard Dempsey completed a year in the stage adaptation of Eleanor Bergstein's Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End playing Neil...
It's My Turn
...also developed into a film starring Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh, with a screenplay written by Eleanor Bergstein. The producers of It's My Turn cut out an erotic dancing scene...
Eleanor Bergstein
...writing and co-producing the cult classic film Dirty Dancing which was based in large part on her own childhood. Bergstein was born in 1938 in Brooklyn, New York. She has one older sister...
PATRICK SWAYZE: The best love scenes don't need what I call 'humpage'
...at us. Jennifer smiled, and from that moment on I knew we had it. Eleanor Bergstein, the writer, later told us she felt that if they didn't get me for the role of Johnny, they...
Michael Terrace
...the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. His stories of the formative years of the Mambo in the Catskills inspired Eleanor Bergstein's vision of lead character Johnny Castle played by Patrick Swayze.
Patrick Swayze and me
...dancing, not to mention the soundtrack, which no self-respecting schoolgirl was without. But it was Eleanor Bergstein's infinitely-quotable script that made Dirty Dancing such a communal...
Patrick Swayze, at 57; actor fused ruggedness, looks, agility
...a fortune at the box office, a fact largely attributed to female ticket-buyers wowed by Mr. Swayze. Eleanor Bergstein, the film's writer and co-producer, told Parade magazine, "I...
Patrick Swayze, 57; 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Ghost' Highlighted Film Career
...a fortune at the box office, a fact largely attributed to female ticket-buyers wowed by Mr. Swayze. Eleanor Bergstein, the film's writer and co-producer, told Parade magazine, "I...
Voices -- Patrick Swayze, 1952 - 2009
...is the sweet sleeper of a hot season. It works with the kick that it does because writer Eleanor Bergstein and director Emile Ardolino know their milieu so well they can handle it in...
The Annotated Script: 'The American Plan'
...to that other Catskills girl-coming-of-age drama, Dirty Dancing "I'm friends with [screenwriter] Eleanor Bergstein, so I can't say the identification has bothered me. In any event,...
