What do you think happened to Baby after she left Kellermans?

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Watching Dirty Dancing for the 1000th time, but probably the first time since I've had the DC and it's got me thinking.... what do you think happened after they went home?

Do you think she gave up her place at college to be with Jonny? She was happy and passionate about her future before she met him and it would be such a shame if she ditched it for a boy... even if he is Patrick Swayze!

How pissed off would you be as a parent if your kid did that?!

And yes, I am that bored that I'm spending my time thinking about this!

@Monkey 😂😂 If you aren't a screenwriter in real life, then your talents are wasted.

Johnny gave her a huge and unusual diamond, which she kept secret for many years. The Kellarmans kept on for a few more years but sadly business was dying as everyone wanted to go to Magaluf. To get insurance they started a fire in which there were a tragic number of casualties, including Johnny.

Years later, an investigator started looking for the diamond, Baby hears about it on the telly and turns up. Tells the investigator her story, her grandson can't believe his ears, she throws the diamond into the pond where they practised the lift and then dies in her sleep, dreaming of Johnny and is reunited.

I think they both went and did their own thing but stayed together, eventually drifting apart amicably. She went on to college and had a good career.
There was a sequel with no mention of her I think and he was a dance teacher at a hotel.

I think she remembers that summer fondly until her own children begin to grow up and then it begins to dawn on her how deeply inappropriate it was for someone in their mid 30s to hit on a 16 yo.

He was supposed to be 24/25 in the film. She was 17/18. Still not great, but not quite as awful!

I think she remembers that summer fondly until her own children begin to grow up and then it begins to dawn on her how deeply inappropriate it was for someone in their mid 30s to hit on a 16 yo.

When I was a teenager it was the ultimate romance for me. Now I kind of agree with her dad. Jonny deserved to be fired.

This.

I loved the movie as a teenager but now viewing it through older eyes it's what they call 'problematic'.

I like to think she went on to college and forgot all about him. Jonny would just find another Baby next season. Men who get involved with teenagers will do it more than once.

When filming PS was 34 and JG 27.

Robbie was a rather nasty piece of work. We would all like it if his life turned out to be awful, but actually it didn't because he was from a good background. He finished medical school and had a string of girlfriends - both college girls from the nearby women's college, plus shop assistants and waitresses that he met whilst in town. He quickly got promoted to be consultant and married the daughter of the senior consultant at the hospital. He wasn't faithful but always convicted her to stay. He didn't really see his kids growing up - always at work or playing golf or womanising, but he was a fine upstanding member of the local synagogue. His career was successful and when he died in 2010 people felt he was a loss to the community - although no-one could really remember anything much a bout him.

Baby was 17 and Johnny was 25.

The thing is, he was older but it really isn't there to make us think he was grooming her.

Coming of age films often have teenagers doing risky or iffy things which mature adults wouldn't do. It's one of the joys of being a teenager,mespeciallybwhen you get away with it and can walk away and look back at it and think 'I can't quite believe I did that.....but I'm glad i did'

It's not to make us decide Jonny was verging on being a paedophile. I don't think it was grooming and she was very much an instigator in it and of an age to make a choice for herself. It's very much our modern sensitivities (which of course are right to be anti grooming) which makes us look at this story through that lens now.

Baby was 17 and Johnny was 25.

I suppose that makes it slightly better. He did not pass as 25 though, even as a teen I assumed Jonny was a lot older than that. Not help by the writing that has him reminiscing about 'back in the day' stuff as if it was at least 15 years ago.

Penny as one of his peers doesn't help either, she looked in her thirties too.

Without watching the film again was any reference to contraception made at all when they slept together?

Summer romance only, she continued with her studies then career, and dated more hot men!

I love all of these. I'm sure in my teens I've have loved them to run away together, get married and live happily ever after.
But as an adult mother of a 9 yo DD, I think they were not even vaguely suitable and that baby went off to college and was very successful and just thought wistfully about her teen affair.

Without watching the film again was any reference to contraception made at all when they slept together

Nope. None at all which is odd considering they had an abortion storyline.

Ooh I love @AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter's script!

No christening. Baby and everyone else at Kellerman's was Jewish! Jewish resorts in the Catskills were a thing in the 1950s and 60s. Called the Borscht Belt. Lots of comics got their start there.

Nope. None at all which is odd considering they had an abortion storyline.

I'm assuming the implication was that they did otherwise Baby would be freaking out thinking she might be in the same situation as Penny.

That's what I was thinking @Russellbrandshair, you would think her father would have been concerned about that. Not a great love story if they started mentioning STD I guess.

I think Jonny should have rebuffed Baby in an Abba 'Does your Mother Know that You're Out' type way.

Baby starts calling herself Frances, goes to college, then to law school, goes into politics, and is eventually elected President of the United States. She and Johnny lose touch but reconnect along the way and become friends. They are both happily married to other people. Johnny runs a dance studio which eventually becomes a nationwide operation and he serves as a judge on Dancing With the Stars. He's a big donor to Baby's political campaigns. They dance the Mambo at Baby's inaugural ball.

No ref to contraception - of course not - how boring would that be in the context of the story.

It’s not there to moralise against grooming or to push contraception.

It’s about a different time and about coming of age in that time. Coming of age stories have lots in common whenever they are set, but also differences too.
This has the taking a risk, the unsuitable boy, the looking back and seeing things a bit differently, the moving away from parff egg nuts and becoming your own person, idealism and disappointment etc.
Being of the 60s abortion is illegal, the social order is perhaps more hierarchical, Baby has the idealism of the early 60s but also the views of the 60s that we would find very traditional now. She’s a character for the audience around 1990 because she’s progressive and different to the unpleasant sister and prejudice which represent the older generation of anytime.

Baby's relationship with her father is the real final triumph!

These are hilarious! I think it was just a summer romance (though it pains me to say it) and she carried on with her plan, but they were still good friends

No christening. Baby and everyone else at Kellerman's was Jewish! Jewish resorts in the Catskills were a thing in the 1950s and 60s. Called the Borscht Belt. Lots of comics got their start there.

I watched an interesting documentary a few years ago about the Catskills resorts. It might have been the one in the trailer linked but I can't remember where I watched the whole thing.

Parff egg nuts?

I think that was meant to be parents. Great typo though