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Eleanor Bergstein (born 1938) is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood.
Sep 9, 1987 · What was it about Eleanor Bergstein’s pitch for “Dirty Dancing” that got producer Linda Gottlieb’s attention?
Nov 10, 2021 · Eleanor Bergstein was a teenage mambo queen whose family summers at Grossinger's inspired her screenplay for Dirty Dancing, the 1987 film set in a Catskills resort in the...
Aug 28, 2017 · It’s rather unnerving to talk with one of your idols, and when I called Eleanor Bergstein last week—the writer and co-producer of Dirty Dancing—I was unreasonably nervous.
In the mid-1980s, Eleanor Bergstein returned to Grossinger’s Resort in the Catskills, where she had vacationed as a child during its heyday, to research her screenplay for “Dirty Dancing.” One...
Aug 20, 2020 · Bergstein has plenty of theories for why people keep returning to Dirty Dancing’s finale, but has most appreciated the conversations about the movie’s subversiveness in recent years. According ...
Jun 25, 1989 · “I think of him at night . . .” screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein opens her second novel, “Ex-Lover.” “It astounds me that I’m here and he’s not.
