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Patrick Swayze
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Dirty Dancing

Good girl Jennifer Grey has her sexuality awoken at a holiday camp in the 1960s by the raunchy dance moves of Butlins-style Yellowcoat Patrick Swayze.

The film made girls swoon (at Swayze gyrating in his tight jeans), and boys groan (at the prospect of having to learn proper moves instead of just jiggling up and down) in equal numbers.

What was intended to be a low-budget filler even made Swayze a pop star, with his single She's Like the Wind, taken from the soundtrack.


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