Baby is 17, Johnny is 25 in Dirty Dancing, legal but still raises concerns today. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey had a 7-year age gap while filming. Dirty Dancing's age gap isn't the worst offender in Hollywood when it comes to onscreen relationships.
How old was the baby in Dirty Dancing supposed to be?
based on iMDB's trivia notes and a 2017 interview with Grey (via Closer Weekly), it seems that Baby was presumably born in 1946 and is supposed to be 17 years old. The character doesn't actually reveal her age in Dirty Dancing, nor does Johnny ask on-camera.
A few brief scenes where Johnny and Baby are implied to have had sex. They dance in Johnny's cabin and Baby strips down to her bra. The camera then cuts to their silhouettes kissing. A little later on Baby and Johnny are shown lying naked in his bed covered by sheets.
Johnny Castle is the deuteragonist of Dirty Dancing He is a dance instructor at Camp Kellerman's. He becomes Baby's dance instructor, and dance partner, where he falls in love with her.
Jake treats Penny but forbids Baby from associating with Johnny or his friends. After Baby apologizes to Johnny for her father's behavior, they dance and have sex. At breakfast, Jake tells his family they will be leaving the resort early but relents when they object.
Who was the father of Penny's baby in Dirty Dancing?
At Kellerman's resort, where Jake and his family are vacationing, Baby finds out that Johnny Castle's dance partner Penny Johnson is pregnant by Robbie Gould, a philandering med school student working as a waiter at the resort, and Baby borrows money from her dad Jake which she secretly uses to pay for an abortion for ...
Did Johnny get the girl pregnant in Dirty Dancing?
Later Baby tracks Johnny down in Penny's room; 'You Don't Own Me' is playing in the background. Robbie comes by, sees them, assumes Johnny is having sex with Baby, and makes a snide remark about having picked the wrong sister. Furious at Robbie for getting Penny pregnant and abandoning her, Johnny beats Robbie up.
Patrick Swayze almost wasn't casted as Johnny Castle. Billy Zane and Val Kilmer were up for the role before Swayze, but Billy Zane couldn't sell it as a dancer and Val Kilmer turned down the opportunity when it was offered to him.
Baby is attracted to Johnny and dances briefly with him after his kindhearted cousin, Billy, introduces them at a secret "dirty dancing" party for resort staff.
Because Frances is the youngest in her family, everyone calls her Baby. This was, in her words, back in the day “…. before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad.”
Recently, Grey has spoken more about her experience working with Swayze. She says they had a lot of tension and didn't really get along... but that's what led to their sizzling on-screen chemistry.
What was the age gap between Baby and Johnny in Dirty Dancing?
How old are Baby and Johnny in Dirty Dancing? The movie is set in 1963, and Baby is 18, while Jonny is 24. In real life Jennifer Grey was 26 when she was cast as Baby, a character that was intended to be fresh out of high school. When Patrick Swayze was cast to play the role of Johnny in the film, he was 34.
The 1987 film is a classic romance film, and Johnny (Swayze) and Baby (Grey) are one of the most beloved on-screen couples. And while their on-screen chemistry was undeniable, their real relationship was a bit rocky.
Dirty Dancing was released a few weeks after the collision, catapulting Grey to fame. But she has said that her grief and survivor's guilt over the crash prevented her from enjoying the film's success and led her to withdraw from acting for some time. Grey was also romantically involved with actors Michael J.
One night, when she had complications during an illegal abortion, Baby sent for Jake, her father who is a doctor, to help Penny. Jake later mistakenly infers that Johnny got Penny pregnant, but finally realizes that it was actually Robbie, and forgives Johnny towards the end of the film, during his dance with Baby.
What happened to the actress who played Penny in Dirty Dancing?
Perhaps her best screen role was as Patrick Swayze's sexy dance partner whose pregnancy opens the way for Jennifer Grey in the hit "Dirty Dancing" (1987). Rhodes has seemingly retired from screen acting since her 1989 marriage to singer Richard Marx.
The couple married just a few weeks later in Franklin, Kentucky; June was 39 and Johnny was 36. They had their son, John Carter Cash, in 1970, blending together their families to include seven children in total.
The couple welcomed a son named John Carter Cash in 1970. June already had two children, Carlene and Rosie, from her two previous marriages, and Johnny had four children, Rosanne, Tara, Kathy and Cindy, with his former wife, Vivian Liberto.
What was the age difference between Winona and Johnny Depp?
1990s it-couple Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder had a pretty big age gap. They met when she was 17, and he was 25. They met in 1989 at the movie premiere of Great Balls of Fire, and apparently, when they locked eyes, Depp claimed it was love at first sight, saying, “I knew then,” via Rolling Stone.
