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Stunning: The vista from Chimney Rock over Hickory Nut Gorge Then there's Lake Lure itself, covering 720 acres and with a shoreline of 20 miles, dotted with picturesque little docks. Prospective dirty dancers had best avoid the Old Rock Cafe in the park and its delicious but hideously fattening sweet potato fries and smoked pork barbecue. Steps take you the last few feet to the apex. If your dancing days are over, there's a lift to take you up 258ft to the restaurant and shop. Stand on top and you can see for 75 miles. Its centrepiece is a rather oddly shaped finger of rock. The gorge has spectacular walks, a 404ft waterfall and picnic areas. And there's 1,000-acre Chimney Rock State Park, created by Dr Morse in 1902, which includes delightful Hickory Nut Gorge. It's only 25 miles to the famous Biltmore Estate, stately home of the Vandebiltsat Ashville, for example. But the area has attractions other than the lake to draw visitors these days. Morse and his brothers bought great chunks of land in the area from 1902 on, and in 1926 Morse dammed the Rocky Broad River specifically to create Lake Lure, reputedly one of the most beautiful man-made lakes in the world. Set in the summer of 1963, producer and writer Eleanor Bergstein's coming-of-age story concerns teenager Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Jennifer Grey), who falls for dance instructor and gigolo Johnny Castle (Swayze).įoreign visitors - Japanese and Brits especially - always ask about Dirty Dancing film locations, but holidaymakers from all over the States have been coming to the region, which sits in the foothills of the famous Blue Ridge Mountains, since the early 1900s, enticed by its stunning natural beauty.ĭr Lucius B. Perhaps that's why they haven't made much of a song and dance about their Dirty Dancing connections - yet. It's exactly the kind of place that would be shocked by the sight of sweaty young people grinding away to Latin music.ĭancing fame: A sign marks the spot of a film location at the golf course Visit this quiet, conservative little resort and you can't imagine the thousand or so permanent residents getting up to such shenanigans. That might be because Dirty Dancing's most memorable scenes - Johnny lifting Baby out of the water, Johnny and friends gyrating in his hot, dark cabin - were filmed at a beauty spot near Charlotte called Lake Lure. Today, my instructor Tony Prado, who co-owns the Queen's City Ballroom with partner Dana Glandon, told me it's still definitely the Swayze-style, passionate Latin dances his clients are most keen to learn - merengue, tango, salsa, lambada and the like. Released in 1987, it stars the late Patrick Swayze, whose sensational dancing earned him the title of sexiest man in the world.

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Thanks to Strictly Come Dancing and films such as Shall We Dance? with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, everyone's gone merengue mad, and dance schools both sides of the Atlantic have twice as many pupils.īut, undoubtedly, the film that started it all, the one that made everyone want to strut their stuff, was Dirty Dancing, the best dance movie ever made. Held close to him by a hand pressed into the small of my back, I had my own personal Patrick Swayze moment, giggled, then fell over my feet again.

Grey will also reprise her role as Baby in the recently announced "Dirty Dancing" sequel.Strutting her stuff: Wendy with instructor Tony Prado

In 2022, the dancer and actor released a memoir titled "Out of the Corner," in which she shared behind-the-scenes details of filming "Dirty Dancing," the nose job that almost ruined her career, and past engagements to actors Matthew Broderick and Johnny Depp. Grey had an arc on Season 15 of "Grey's Anatomy." She played Carol Dickinson, the birth grandmother of Owen's adopted son, Leo.īut Grey recently told the Chicago Tribune that she had "stopped" acting for a very long time because her anxiety about it was so bad "it just wasn't worth it anymore."

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She also played Judy Rosen on the Amazon Prime dramedy series "Red Oaks" from 2014 to 2017. More recently, she won "Dancing with the Stars" season 11 in 2010 with her partner Derek Hough. In 1995, she played a character named Mindy on an episode of "Friends" called "The One with the Evil Orthodontist."

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After "Dirty Dancing," Grey went on to appear in many TV movies.