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[quote]I never thought Johnny seemed believable as being in love with Baby. Maybe it was just me?

He wasn't in love with her. He was having fun doing a rich, young, wide-eyed impressionable girl for the summer, that's all. Then it turned out she taught him some things about the type of person he wanted to become....

In the original? I didn't get that impression. Neither character were using each other. The summer relationship was perspective changing for both of them in different ways.

I liked Patrick Swayze, but I never bought that his character was in love with Jennifer Grey's character during the movie. The tensions of making the movie revealed after the theatrical release led me to believe [b]that he couldn't get past his personal annoyance with Grey b/c of her inability to dance and that came across in the on screen chemistry. 
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 Aye, there's the rub He was a professional dancer who was also an actor. (He couldn’t pull off the most intellectual roles, but he had his niche.) Jennifer Grey as an actress was a perfect choice for Baby. She wasn’t a total clod, but she wasn’t a professional dancer.

It’s probably similar to the conflicts Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds faced on Singing in the Rain and probably why they included a dream sequence with he and Cyd Charisse, a professional dancer. The only movie that I’ve ever seen where they passed off the awkward duckling turned swan dancer was Strictly Ballroom. If a dancer is cast—they either can’t act and/or they can’t act like a novice dancer.   
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Maybe she wasn't a professional dancer, but she did have classical ballet training growing up. Maybe it was also because she was the daughter of a famous showman. 
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