Dirty Dancing

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Jennifer Grey: Dirty Dancing star on 'terrible pain' - her head was ... (Daily Express)

JENNIFER GREY will appear on Channel 5 today (June 11) for an 8:00pm showing of Dirty Dancing. Unfortunately, you're unlikely to see the actress dancing ...

She was in terrible pain," recounted her neck surgeon Doctor Robert Bray on Good Morning America around the time. “If the pain is very bad, you may need to rest at first. Grey continued dancing years after the filming of Dirty Dancing. She even went on to win Dancing with the Stars season 11 in 2010. Luckily for the star, she was able to push on through the final with the help of steroid injections to ameliorate the pain from the slipped disc. "She called me in the morning on the day of the finals and was in tears. What happened to her?

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Dirty Dancing True Story: How Jennifer Grey Was Cast As Baby (Screen Rant)

Jennifer Grey landed her most iconic role opposite Patrick Swayze as Dirty Dancing's Baby from an unplanned and completely perfect audition moment.

Dirty Dancing’s Baby became, and continues to be, one of the most enduring coming-of-age roles in film history, born from Grey’s own affection and reliance upon her father mixed with her determination to win her dream role. The film hinges upon Dirty Dancing’s Baby, torn between her role as a daughter, desperately seeking her father’s approval and love, and her desire to be her own woman—a struggle Grey encapsulated in the first minute of her audition. Approaching the world with a child-like vulnerability, Baby breaks away from the manicured life she knows as the doted-upon daughter of the esteemed Dr. Houseman (Jerry Orbach), falls in love, and ends the summer no longer a baby, but a woman.

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