Dirty Dancing premiered on this day, 27 years ago. The movie was not supposed to be successful. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey apparently hated each. Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in. Directed by Emile Ardolino. With Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes. Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances Baby. Prime Music gives you unlimited, ad-free access to over a million songs and hundreds of playlists. Get started with Prime. Order Dirty Dancing! Available on Blu-Ray™, DVD, and Digital HD Download from iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Prime. Dirty Dancing - Search for movie plot, trailers, cast and crew, photos, reviews, and tickets online at Moviefone Dirty Dancing -- what a great title! -- is such a bubbleheaded, retro vision of growing up in the sixties (or any other time) that you go out of the theatre giggling. In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey stars as Frances Baby Houseman, a girl who goes on vacation to the Catskills with her father, mother and sister in the summer of 1963. Dirty Dancing ensemble member Joshua Keith gives a dance lesson to Peace Center visitors at the Gunter Theatre on Thursday. The show runs through Sunday at. Dirty Dancing is a duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Eric Schoen, who previously fronted Electric Pants in Milwaukee, and Lauren Mikus, who previously sang for.