Dirty Dancing

At 62, the actress known for playing Baby in the 1980s classic has a new memoir out, 'Out of the Corner,' in which she reveals how partying, abuse and a ...

Last spring, it was announced that a sequel to Dirty Dancing is in the works; the movie is scheduled to be released in 2024. I didn’t want a child where I was [at] in my life,” she told the “This is just so fundamentally wrong, and it is sounding a bell for all women to rise up and use their voice now because we have assumed, since 1973, that our choice was safe and that it was never going to be overturned.” In addition to its plea for the liberation of female sexuality, the right to a safe abortion is another issue Dirty Dancing addresses, which made selling the film to studios difficult for the movie’s screenwriter, Eleanor Bergstein. In her memoir, Grey writes that when she was just 14 years old, she was sexually assaulted by the superintendent of the building where she lived with her parents. I wouldn’t have had the career I had, I wouldn’t have had anything,” Grey says. Unfortunately, that same topic has brought the film back into the spotlight following the Supreme Court’s decision to Her father, Joel Grey, is a well-known actor who won an Oscar in 1972 for his iconic role as the Master of Ceremonies in Bob Fosse’s Cabaret. “When I try to imagine my own daughter at 16, playing house, essentially living with a grown-ass man, doing tons of blow, popping Quaaludes, and going to Studio [54] - not to mention being lied to, cheated on, then gifted with various and sundry STDs and unwanted pregnancies, it makes me feel physically ill,” she reflects. She enjoyed and suffered the consequences of extravagance, debauchery and abuse before Dirty Dancing catapulted her to international fame, making her the 1980s legend she is today. Her personal story is nothing like that of the chaste Baby Houseman. Born into one of Los Angeles’s best-known families, her mother is Jo Wilder, an actress and singer who gave up her career to raise Jennifer and her younger brother, James.