The July 1986 Script -- 2

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The July 1986 script includes, on page 63, the scene where Johnny Castle beats up Robbie Gould. This scene was added to the script by Patrick Swayze, after he was hired for the movie. Therefore, this is not the script that was rejected by major movie producers. Rather, this was a script that had been rewritten after Vestron Pictures, a small producer, decided in February 1986 to make the movie.

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This script does not include Baby's opening monologue about Kennedy being shot, the Beatles coming, and finding a guy as great as her Dad.

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Billy Castellano (not Kostecki) is an Italian from Philadelphia. We will learn later that Johnny's real last name is Castellano and that Billy and Johnny are cousins.

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When Marge was in her late teens, she wore the same skirt and blouse every day. Marge grew up poor.

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Billy tells a Jewish joke, which suggests to the movie audience that this hotel serves mostly Jews.

Billy aspires to become an entertainer.

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Penny Connor (not Johnson) is teaching the guests to dance to a "La Bamba-like merengue". Richie Valens' song "La Bamba" became a hit in 1958.

The hotel owners are named Cosner. Penny is named Connor.

Penny is identified as German-Irish. The script now has specified that neither Billy nor Penny is Jewish.

Mrs. Schumacher is described as "an elderly small roly poly German-accented speaking woman". That description fits Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a famous sex counselor whom the producers intended to hire to play this role. However, Westheimer turned the role down.

Mrs. Schumacher says: Who needs men to dance, right? They think they're something so special because they've got something in their pants. Most of them don't know how to use it, right?

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Penny drops some records on the floor. Maybe this is an indication that she is pregnant.

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Page 10

Johnny is 21 years old.

Rico, a member of the Entertainment Staff, indicates that he and the other Entertainment Staff guys sometimes get oral sex ("head") from female guests in the woods. In a later scene, deleted from the final movie, Baby sees Johnny alone with a female guest in the woods. Baby must assume that Johnny got a blow-job from that woman.

Rico will appear again during the "dirty dancing" party in the bunkhouse.

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Johnny knocks over a napkin pyramid that Robbie had constructed.

The scene in Baby's and Lisa's bedroom has been deleted. The scene was supposed to include Lesley Gore's 1963 hit song "It's My Party".

Ben Casey was a doctor character on the television series that was broadcast from 1961 to 1966.

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