Dirty Dancing Analysis: The July 1986 Script -- 1

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About seven weeks after this script date, filming began, on September 5, 1986.

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YouTube used to have a video showing eleven scenes that were deleted from the final movie. This voting scene (lasting 54 seconds) was the fourth scene in that video. This scene was the movie's opening scene.

(If someone is able to put that video back onto YouTube, please inform me at MikeSylwester@gmail.com.)

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The soundtrack is playing an "original song" (a song composed for this movie).

The Houseman family's car is a 1963 navy-blue Oldsmobile.

Lisa Houseman is 19 years old. Baby is 17 years old.

Lisa uses a Kotex sanitary napkin to control her hair when she grooms it.

Baby is reading a book titled The Plight of the Peasant.

Marjorie Houseman is in "fortyish". She gave birth to Lisa and Baby while in her early twenties.

Marjorie is reading Teen Life and Dig magazines. She is reading an article about teen actress Annette Funicello.

Jake Houseman practices medicine in Brooklyn.

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Baby is embarrassed that her mother is reading teen magazines instead of classical literature.

Mock lindy?

The conversation between Lisa and Baby indicates that Lisa is "Mommy's girl" and Baby is "Daddy's girl". Lisa and Mommy are interested in shopping. Baby and Daddy are interested in current events. Lisa is eager to have sex.

Marjorie is encouraging Lisa to have a summer romance with a good prospect for marriage.

The song on the radio is "Not Too Young to Get Married" by the Dixie Cups. YouTube has that song, performed in 1963 by Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans. YouTube does not have that song by the Dixie Cups.

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Lisa and Baby squabble. The Kotex sanitary napkin is tossed around.

Marjorie has always wished she had a sister.

Cosner's -- not Kellerman's -- Mountain House

The owner is Manny Cosner -- not Max Kellerman.

Credits end.

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