This Day In History, 1987: The Premiere Of Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing turns 30! Here's what I said five years ago on the 25th anniversary:

Dirty Dancing is 25 years old! The movie premiered on August 21, 1987, and after all these years, you may not know that it wasn't supposed to be a hit. It was made on a tiny budget, by not-well-known producers and directors, and even Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey weren't all that famous at the time. Roger Ebert hated it, but much to pretty much everyone's surprise, the movie caught on. The music was catching and people were seeing it again and again, and this was back when you couldn't just call it up on Netflix or pop in the 10th anniversary DVD - if you wanted to see Dirty Dancing you had to actually go to the movies.

So Happy Anniversary to Baby and Johnny! She's still like the wind, love is still strange and you still don't own me. I'm still having the time of my life, and nobody puts Baby in a corner.