Baby intended to seduce Johnny when they returned from the Sheldrake

This article follows up a previous article titled Thursday night was bingo night at Kellerman's.

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After Johnny Castle and Baby Houseman performed at the Sheldrake Hotel, he no longer had any reason to spend time with her (assuming that Penny Johnson would be able to dance further performances at the Sheldrake with him).

As Johnny drove Baby from the Sheldrake back to Kellerman's, he was satisfied with her effort and performance.

Johnny Castle
You did good. You worked hard. .... You know, by the second turn, you really had it.

Baby Houseman
But I didn't do the lift.

Johnny Castle
You did real good.

Baby Houseman
Thanks.

Beyond those bland assurances, Johnny did not encourage Baby to imagine any future relationship. He did not express any interest in contining to dance or spend time with her. He did not even flirt with her.

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Before he got into his car to drive from the Sheldrake back to Kellerman's, Johnny changed out of his dancing clothes into casual clothes. When he arrived at Kellerman's he drove his car to the vicinity of Penny's cabin.

Johnny intended to visit Penny briefly, change his clothes and then hurry to the hotel ballroom, where he was supposed to dance for and with the guests who stayed to dance after the Thursday-evening bingo games.

Johnny got out of the car and walked around its front to Baby's passenger-side door. He opened her door and she got out and stood up, facing him. He held her two hands in his own two hands for just a moment. Then he released both her hands and turned away from her to walk toward Penny's cabin.

Right after Johnny had turned away, Billy ran up to the car and urged Johnny to hurry to Penny's cabin.

Because Penny turned out to be sick from her abortion, Johnny did not go to the ballroom.

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Although Johnny intended to stop spending time with Baby, she wanted to continue and develop her relationship with Johnny. She had three goals:

1) To lose her virginity to him.

2) To continue learning to dance from him.

3) To prepare a dance performance with him for the talent show.

Baby did not have money to pay Johnny for private dance lessons or for help in performing at the talent show. She already owed $250 to her father, so she would not get much more money from him.

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The video clip showing Baby's conversation with Lisa on bingo night reveals that Baby has become uncharacteristically ruthless, deceitful and manipulative.

This scene -- although deleted from the movie -- provides an informative context for evaluating Baby's effort to continue and develop her relationship with Johnny. Tonight Baby will do whatever it takes to succeed, no matter how her desperate methods might contradict her lifetime of developing her superb ethical character and reputation. Baby intended to seduce Johnny sexually that night so that he would continue to spend time with him through her remaining days at the resort.

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I do not have a video clip of the scene where Baby and Johnny are driving from the Sheldrake Hotel, so I can only describe it with words. (If someone can send me a video clip, I will upload it into this article.)

As the scene begins, Johnny is driving and Baby is sitting in the car's back seat and changing her clothes. Her upper body can be seen, and she is wearing a white bra that has a strap across the middle of her back. Johnny can see Baby in the rear-view mirror, but he tries to avoid doing so while she is changing her clothes.

Baby already is wearing her bra when the scene begins.
Johnny still is refraining from peeking into his rear-view mirror.

Now as Baby is putting on her peasant blouse, 
Johnny begins to look in his rear-view mirror.

The following details should be recognized and considered:

* In the previous scene, where she was dancing at the Sheldrake, she had been wearing a pink dress with an open back. She obviously had not been wearing this white bra while she had been dancing. Therefore, she must have put this bra while in car's back seat, right before the car scene began. If so, then her breasts had been bare briefly right while she was in the back seat and visible to Johnny in the mirror.

The back of Baby's dress at the Sheldrake Hotel

* Johnny has changed out of the tuxedo he had worn during the dance performance. He is wearing casual clothes. Johnny had the time and opportunity to change his clothes before he got into the car, but Baby has waited to change her clothes while she is in the car.

* After Baby has dressed, she crawls over the front car seat's back and sits in the passenger seat, next to Johnny, who continues to drive. She is wearing the same white tight pants and white, embroidered peasant blouse that she was wearing earlier that night when she talked with Lisa (see the above video clip). Baby had not been wearing her dancing dress when she had hurried away from Kellerman's, so perhaps she had changed her clothes similarly in the car's back seat while she and Johnny drove toward the Sheldrake Hotel. If so, then her breasts were bare twice while she was in the car's back seat that night.

*  When the car arrives at Penny's cabin, Baby continues to sit in the car while Johnny gets out to go visit Penny briefly. Baby is afraid that the situation might develop is such a way that she does not get back into the car -- that she will be expected to simply walk back to her hotel room. Baby wants to make sure that she will be in the car after Johnny gets back into the car.

* Baby remains sitting in the car, primping her face in the rear-view mirror. Johnny walks around the car's front and opens her passenger door, so she does get out of the car after all.

* Johnny takes both her hands into both his own hands for a moment. He seems to be expressing his idea that now he and she are departing from each other. He makes no motion to kiss her goodbye. Rather, he simply holds her hands for a moment as his platonic method of communicating his goodbye. Baby is not supposed to go into an employee's cabin.

* Then Johnny turns away from Baby before Billy approaches. Billy's announcement that Penny is suffering some problem gives Baby an unexpected reason to stay with Johnny by going along with him to Penny's cabin.

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Penny's crisis delays Baby's plan to seduce Johnny immediately after they return from the Sheldrake to Kellerman's. Although she did arouse him by exposing her bare breasts, his arousal was dissipated by the time Dr. Jake Houseman finished treating Penny.

Afterwards, Jake forbade Baby from seeing Johnny again.

After Jake went back to bed, however, Baby, still wearing the same white, embroidered peasant blouse, went to Johnny's cabin and accomplished her plan to seduce him.