#frances houseman

[garbage-creature]

Frances 'Baby' Houseman and Johnny Castle

I want what they have 😭🩷

[do-you-know-this-baby]

Do you know this baby?

comment: If you refuse to post her that's akin to putting Baby in the corner, and there's a whole quote from the movie about why we shouldn't do that

// ok 😢

[zeroandvoid]

🫶 Dirty Dancing moodboard 🫶

[farahsamboolents]

🎶 and i owe it all to you 🎶

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Frances "Baby" Houseman…

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[deim0sdread]

So I was watching dirty dancing for the first time at 2 am you know as one does and bro I felt like I was interrupting a moment the whole time 😭😭😭 anyway ily Johnny Castle never change

[dopehipster]

"Baby, don't go." "We got so close."

"And we felt so free."

[kaitlinj16]

🦋365 Days / 365 Characters🦋

[156/365] Characters 》 Frances "Baby" Houseman

"There are a lot of things about me that aren’t what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the things about me."

🤍❤🤍

[tzigone]

Rewatched Dirty Dancing for the first time in at least a decade

Rewatched Havana Nights, too. I've seen the original mores time, but it's been at least a decade since I've seen either.

Of course, the story is a moment in time and ends there. But people like "what happened next" and I totally went to look for fanfic on it, I admit. Way too many "she's pregnant" stories - hell no. Johnny should not have trouble getting condoms at that time in history and given Penny's recent trauma, I just don't really buy them not using birth control.

But what do I think would happen? Well, I want my couples together. But what do they do, besides be in love? I will say Baby and Johnny are part of the formation and growth of each other and each other and the the events influenced their world views in ways that would linger forever, even if they didn't stay a couple. But I'd keep 'em together, because I'm a sucker for happy ending.

I admit to not watching all that closely this time around, so may have missed details telling us what they might want.

Did Johnny really truly love dance in the sense of wanting it as a career? I know Penny said it was all she ever wanted to do - not sure if she was being honest about it. If I made one really have success at it, it'd be her, I think.

I remember how Johnny felt about about Baby's father helping Penny. Now, yes, saying he's nothing is part of his own skewed view of his own worth. But would he like to be able to do something "important" because it's what he wants, instead of just for the regard it would grant him? That ability to help, and the willingness that Baby had to do so, are something he so admires, and doe he want to emulate it?

I do think Johnny has both desire and disdain for that upper middle class lifestyle (indeed, some of the disdain at, least, is envy-driven, though some deserved, as well). The security, the comfort, the women who take care of themselves and smell nice and all the "softness" and ease are have their appeals. I don't know if he could accomplish it - college isn't expensive then (well, depending on where you are), but affording to live while you are at school is an entirely different thing. And I'm not sure his pride or sense of "rightness" would allow for college-graduate wife Baby paying his way through later (and, of course, he'd be older). College is by no means a necessity, though. But what flavor of meaningful work would suit and please him?

Anyone else think his uncle might be better off than his own folks - union painter/plasterer would not be bad pay (though it depends on how many weeks work there are each year, and, of course, is blue collar).

Baby. Frances. She grew up so much. She went from viewing her father as almost perfect to realizing he was a (still good) man with his own flaws and biases. She learned you can't always change the unjust things, but trying matters anyway. But she's not as naive anymore. It's obviously important that she not give up wanting to help - to make the world a better place. But it's the method of it, I'm curious to. Will she be a lawyer or economist or something else? Certainly, I don't expect her to live in the same sort of "bubble" she grew up in - with the idea that "those people" are "other" - that it's good to help, but that they occupy different social spheres. So I do think she'd want a more mixed (economically, socially, racially) environment and social circle in her adulthood. Does she still go for the Peace Corps or for more mundane help at home? The world and youth culture change so much in the next few years (though we have to be mindful that the actual sixties had a whole lot boring, non-activist, traditional life-style young people), and how is she affected by those changes? Don't want her the cynic.

Then for Havana Nights, there's a whole other pickle with the political elements and consequences. Javier is hopeful for a brighter future. And Castro was quite popular for a quite a while, and there really were significant improvements in life for many. But he not a proponent of violence, and the executions, imprisonments, and setting folks up to spy on each other will not endear him. So how long until he leaves, and what does he do when he does? He's devoted to his family and is the major financial provider for his mother and nephew. Having dependents makes so much more difficult. Will he get leave for the US? Will he get his family there, too or just send remittances? And his brother is a whole 'nother can of worms. Even if he does come to the US, he absolutely not going to mesh well with the earliest/first-wave emigrants, who favor Batista like US influence over Cuba.

Katey is very much the typical teen in that she no idea what she wants to do with her life. She doesn't have a "direction" or dream job or anything like that. Still very much finding her way. Just with broader horizons after her experiences. And far more cognizant of of the impact of politics. Don't know what I'd have her do.

[skydaemon]

watching dirty dancing and thinking that like two extra scenes and a few script changes could make an incredible story of johnny, baby, and penny forming a triad. they have the range

[luvsbitca]

Watching ‘Dirty Dancing’ and I couldn’t help but think to myself what if Baby and Emily were the same person.

She went from this…

And when things went pear shaped with Johnny (which in my dirty dancing head anon they DID NOT break up but found a way to be social warriors together) she ran back to the life she’d known.

[kaytheday]

Dirty dancing wallpaper

[strangely-polite-space-bandits]

Dirty Dancing

Sylvia!

Yes Mickey?

How do you call your loverboy?

Come 'ere loverboy!

And if he doesn't answer?

Oh loverboy~

And if he still doesn't answer?

I simply say, "Baby, Oh, baby, my sweet baby. You're the one."

I had two film journal pages dedicated to this movie.

[zeroandvoid]

🌹 Frances Houseman moodboard 🌹

[snow-licity]

So Dirty Dancing became my new hyperfixation REAL QUICK! I love them together sm and it had been YEARS since the last time I'd watched this movie but I'm right back on it!

(I do not want to talk about the fact that the actors didn't like each other on set bc I have FULLY blocked that out and you LITTERALLY CANT TELL ON SCREEN THEY ARE THAT GOOD!!!)

[deim0sdread]

Watching Dirty Dancing with @izaacs-notdeadyet and HE IS THIRSTING I'm scared good golly help