Baby (Jennifer Grey)’s Timeline and Summary

Baby (Jennifer Grey)’s Timeline and Summary

  • Baby arrives at Kellerman's with her family.
  • She quickly makes friends with Billy, an employee, and he takes her to the dancers' cabins.
  • There, Baby meets sexy dance instructor Johnny Castle, who shows her a few moves.
  • The next day, Baby learns that Johnny's dance partner, Penny, is pregnant.
  • Penny wants an abortion, and Baby attempts to get the money from the baby daddy, Robbie the waiter.
  • She can't get blood from a stone, or money from a deadbeat, so Baby borrows the money from her own daddy instead.
  • Problem solved, right? Wrong. Baby now needs to fill in for Penny in a dance show, or Johnny will lose the gig.
  • Baby trains super hard and learns to dance in the show.
  • Even though she fails to do a scary lift, Johnny compliments her for a job well done.
  • When they return, they discover Penny's abortion went horribly wrong.
  • Baby fetches her dad, a doctor, who saves Penny but forbids Baby from seeing the dancers again.
  • That sends Baby running back to Johnny's arms, where they do more than dance.
  • They conduct a secret affair until Johnny's fired for sleeping with a guest.
  • Baby's dad finds out, and he gets very mad at her. She tells him that he let her down, too, for being a hypocrite.
  • At the final show at Kellerman's, Johnny returns to do the big final dance the way he does every year.
  • But this year, he'll do it his way: with Baby as his partner.
  • They impress everyone, even Baby's dad who apologizes for misunderstanding Johnny.
  • The dancing pair even does the incredible lift. What a finale.