Patrick Swayze Talks About the Making of "Dirty Dancing"

The video was made in about 2016, as Swayze was dying of cancer.

Swayze talks about various people who participated in making the movie. The video includes film clips from the filming process.

0:00 - 0:30 = Moments in the movie

0:31 - 1:10 = Emile Ardolino

1:11 - 1:23 = Dance in culture

1:24 - 2:25 = Personal background as a dancer and actor

2:26 - 2:50 = Innocence and ideals in Dirty Dancing

2:51 - 3:25 = Similarities between Patrick and Johnny

3:26 - 3:49 = Screen tests

3:50 - 4:06 = Eleanor Bergstein

4:07 - 4:17 = The movie team comes together

4:18 - 4:29 = Kenny Ortega

4:30 - 4:45 = Differences between Patrick and Johnny as dancers

4:46 - 5:59 = Improvisation during filming

6:00 - 6:32 = Story-telling in the movie

6:33 - 6:57 = Jennifer Grey's performance

6:58 - 7:40 = Improvisation during filming

7:41 - 8:29 = The lift and trust

8:30 - 9:01 = The soundtrack

9:02 - 10:29 = She's Like the Wind

10:30 - 11:55 = Gratitude

11:56 - = Encapsulating a moment in our lives

An Interview with Patrick Swayze Before the Movie's Release

This interview of Patrick Swayze took place ...

* after August 5, 1987, when Jennifer Grey was involved in an automobile accident,

* before August 21, 1987, when Dirty Dancing was released.

The interviewer -- I do not know her name -- has seen the movie before its release and before this interview.

0:00 - 1:29 = Horses

1:30 - 1:43 = Lisa

1:44 - 2:04 = Two other recent movies

2:05 - 2:45 = Movies with horses

2:46 - 4:05 = Musicals

4:06 - 5:45 = Dance background

5:46 - 6:05 = Compliments for performance in Dirty Dancing

6:06 - 9:10 = The title "Dirty Dancing"

9:11 - 12:30 = Red Dawn

12:31 - 13:27 = Jennifer Grey

13:28 - 14:24 = Waiting for Dirty Dancing's release

14:25 - 16:50 = Practicing dances for Dirty Dancing

16:51 - 18:00 = Dance teachers

18:01 - 9:10 = Professional ambitions with Lisa

9:11 - 19:35 = Expectations for Dirty Dancing's success

19:36 - 20:20 = Future as a "sex symbol"

20:21 - 21:40 = Future as an actor

21:41 - 22:35 = Lisa's personality

22:36 - 27:08 = Questions re-asked

Deleted Scenes

0:00 - 0:55 = Baby sees Johnny caressing a woman in the forest at night

0:56 - 3:10 =  Baby, in her underwear, dances erotically with Johnny

3:11 - 4:16 = Baby and Johnny practice dancing in front of a mirror

4:17 - 5:11 = The Houseman family votes to go to Kellerman's resort

5:12 - 6:01 = Baby and Lisa primp in front of mirrors in their bedroom

6:02 - 6:22 = Lisa says that Baby is weird but "better than me"

6:23 - 7:12 = Johnny puts his luggage into his car trunk and says goodbye to Penny

7:13 - 8:16 = Resort guests, dressed up, dance in the gazebo

8:17 - 9:02 = Baby talks with her mother about breaking up with a boyfriend

9:03 - 11:02 = The resort comedian tells a series of jokes

11:03 - 12:09 = Baby listens to her father warn her about bad boys