Dirty Dancing part eight
Somehow our intrepid group of movie makers were getting the job done. There were lots of strange setbacks and workarounds that happened on the set. One was that Kelly Bishop, originally cast for the role of Vivian Pressman (the 'bungalow bunny',) had to take over the role of the mother character, Marjorie Houseman when the original actor cast for the part fell ill. The role of Vivian went to Patrick Swayze's dance coach, Miranda Garrison. Garrison was also assistant choreographer for the movie, so she wore three hats during the production. Both Bishop and Garrison fit their newly assigned roles to a 'T.'
There were a few accidents with crew falling off of ladders and some broken bones, but it all seems par for the course when you are working on the set of a low-budget movie. They had more problems with rain. They did the interior scenes for the Kellerman lodge while waiting for the weather to clear. But by mid-September, when they finally did get a chance to finish the exterior scenes, they found that the leaves on the trees had begun to change colour to reds, oranges, and yellows instead of 'summer green.' They did what they could and spray painted the fall foliage green again.
By September 20, 1986, they had wrapped up shooting at 'Kellerman's Mountain Lodge' in Virginia and moved the cast and crew to their second location at Lake Lure, North Carolina. It was there that they shot most of the 'staff quarters' scenes. There was a Boy Scouts camp at the lake and they used the cabins there as the staff quarters in the movie. The art department cleverly recreated pathways, fences, and lighting fixtures to make the place in Lake Lure look like the continuation of Kellerman's in Virginia.
In order to film the dance scenes held in the staff quarters, they tented over the cabins to simulate night. This made everything very hot and steamy which all translated well to the atmosphere of the movie. Some people were close to fainting while director Emile Ardalino went about painstakingly getting all the angles he needed to shoot to capture the energy of the dancing.
I also got the chronology wrong in that the scene on the log was filmed at Lake Lure. It was there that Patric Swayze fell from the log several times, aggravating his knee injury. He was taken to a doctor to have fluid drained from his knee. It is difficult to tell by the literature and the movie as to what scenes where filmed where. They do a great job in editing so that only experts familiar with the two locations can identify things like a car driving around a corner at the Virginia location which suddenly ends up in North Carolina.
By October 27, 1986 they had managed to wrap up all the filming. Ten months later, on August 21, 1987, Dirty Dancing premiered in theatres.
. (I must have got it from an unreliable source... I'm usually a stickler for these details!)
As soon as Edwin changed his I thought, "Del won't." 
