Eleanor Bergstein
Eleanor B. Bergstein ( born 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American writer, screenwriter, film producer and film director, who became known for her semi- autobiographical film Dirty Dancing international notoriety.
Life
Eleanor Bergstein was born as the daughter of a liberal Jewish doctor in Brooklyn. With her older sister Francis was mainly brought up by her mother. During her school years she was an avid dancer and took after she taught underprivileged children during the day, evening at countless dance competitions, which she also won. Some summer the family spent in the luxury resort Grossinger 's in the Catskills, where also in dancing contests, the Dirty dance halls were called, took part. And while their parents golften, Bergstein had her first love to a dancer Arthur Murray dance studios.
This story told Bergstein early 1985 the film producer Linda Gottlieb, who was then working for MGM and stood up for the production of the film. But after the script was finished, joined the MGM management and the project was dropped back. There was for a long time, no further studio that history, the " slightly and gently " was considered too, wanted to film. Only when they came to meet the young company Vestron Pictures with further concessions, the film was made and is following a worldwide box office earnings of over 213 million U.S. dollars as mountain stone greatest success.
While her older sister Francis married a dance instructor, Bergstein married 1966 Michael Goldman, a poet and later a professor at Princeton University, with whom she lives in New York ever since. Already in the 1970s Bergstein worked as a writer and published in 1973 Advancing Paul Newman and her first in 1989 with Ex -Lover: A Novel her last book.