Emile Ardolino
Emile Ardolino( May 9, 1943 – November 20, 1993) was an American film director, choreographer, and producer, best known for his films" Dirty Dancing"( 1987) and" Sister Act"( 1992).
Dirty Dancing (disambiguation)
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 film.
Dirty Dancing may also refer to:
Still of the Night
Still of the Night or In the Still of the Night may refer to:
La Bestia humana
La Bestia humana is a 1957 Argentine film whose story is based on the novel" La Bête Humaine" by the French writer Émile Zola.
Ultimate Dirty Dancing
Ultimate Dirty Dancing( full title: Dirty Dancing: Ultimate Dirty Dancing) was released in 2003 and contains every song from the motion picture" Dirty Dancing" sequenced in the order it appears in the film.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing:
Havana Nights( also known as Dirty Dancing 2 or Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights) is a 2004 American dance musical romantic drama film directed by Guy Ferland.
The film is a prequel/" re-imagining" of the 1987 blockbuster" Dirty Dancing", reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution.
It was mostly filmed in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt( 15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt.
He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, with" Nameless Heroes".
Other films include" A Stolen Life"( 1946) and" Sirocco"( 1951).
Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Nazi regime — who briefly had him arrested — because he was Jewish.
Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940.
He produced and directed his last Hollywood picture," Kisses for My President"( 1964), about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.
He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, near his wife, Pearl Argyle Wellman Bernhardt.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino.
It stars Jennifer Grey as Frances" Baby" Houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle( Patrick Swayze) at a holiday resort.
The film was based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood.
She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film" It's My Turn", but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became" Dirty Dancing".
She finished the script in 1985, but management changes at MGM put the film in development hell.
The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer.
Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.
" Dirty Dancing" premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 1987, and was released on August 21, 1987, in the United States, earning over$ 214 million worldwide.
It was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video, and its soundtrack created by Jimmy Ienner generating two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including"( I've Had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for best duet.
The film's popularity led to a 2004 prequel,, and a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America.
A made- for- TV remake was also released in 2017.
Torments of the Night
Torments of the Night( German: Qualen der Nacht) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Claire Rommer, Ernö Verebes and William Dieterle.
It was distributed by the German subsidiary of the American company Fox Film.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing:
Havana Nights( also known as Dirty Dancing 2 or Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights) is a 2004 American dance musical romantic drama film directed by Guy Ferland.
The film is a prequel/" re-imagining" of the 1987 blockbuster" Dirty Dancing", reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution.
It was mostly filmed in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Question: Which film whose director is younger, Torments Of The Night or Dirty Dancing?
Answer: Dirty Dancing