Patrick Swayze

Nobody puts Baby in the corner but Dirty Dancing hunk Patrick Swayze wanted Johnny to leave Jennifer Grey's Baby right there.

Johnny and Penny's scenes together are explosive, and Swayze also revealed that he fought hard against changing them: "When some on the set suggested I tone down the dancing with Penny early on, I put my foot down. He said: "Johnny is a part of Baby’s journey in the story. It’s one of the best known and best-loved sequences in the film, which really came from the clash in their personalities." That said, Johnny’s absence looms large over the story, so it’s a coming-of-age story but also a coming-of-age for Baby’s character in a way." They worked intensively on the Dirty Dancing, inserting the scene where Johnny has a fight with the sleazy waiter, and spending all night polishing his final big speech. And they almost never have to then show what happened after the fairytale big ending. And I know you don't want me to do the movie.'" Grey was also terrified of the daring lifts and hated perfectionist Swayze's insistence on multiple takes. Gottlieb said: "They were doing the scene in which they are standing together and he is running his finger down the side of her arm and he did it and she burst out laughing. But by now it is also well-known that the two actors started off on the wrong foot and continued to clash throughout the shoot. They had starred together previously in 1984's Red Dawn and the actress had been so horrified by his on-set behaviour that she tried to have his casting in Dirty Dancing blocked. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray's bickering and love-hate relationship on screen is part of what makes the movie such an enduringly beloved romantic success.