Patrick Swayze hated ‘Nobody puts Baby in a corner’

Swayze has written extensively about the shooting of the 1987 film in his book ‘The Time Of My Life’.

Describing the final scene of the movie,the actor wrote,”We did a lot of rewriting for the big final scene,but one line that I hated stayed in. I could hardly bring myself to say: ‘Nobody puts Baby in a corner.’ It sounded so corny.

“But,seeing the finished film,I had to admit it worked. And of course it became one of the most quoted lines in the movie. I quote a version of it myself these days,saying,’Nobody puts Patrick’s pancreas in a corner’,when people ask how I’m coping with cancer,” wrote the actor in the book he put together with wife Lisa Niemi.

Swayze succumbed to cancer just before the publication of his autobiography where he has talked about his acting career,movies and his personal life.

The book also reveals that the first cut of ‘Dirty Dancing’ was not received well and the producer commented “burn the negative and collect the insurance”. But director Emile Ardolino’s faith in the film saved it.

“We all figured it would be a modestly successful movie,and not much more than that. My wife,Lisa,thought it was the kind of story people would be drawn to,but we had no idea what was coming,that after the movie opened we would be swallowed by a tidal wave of fame and attention,” writes Swayze.

‘Dirty Dancing’ opened in the US in August 1987. It shot to the number two spot and within ten days and is considered one of the greatest romantic films made ever.