Trivia: What is Baby’s real first name in “Dirty Dancing”?
Marilyn
Doris
Frances
Jennifer
The correct answer is Frances
So why is this answer correct? : “Nobody puts Frances in a corner” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, but regardless, Frances is the real first name of Jennifer Grey’s character, Baby Houseman, in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.” During a deep conversation one night with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), Baby reveals her name and says it’s inspired by “the first woman in the Cabinet,” Frances Perkins. (In 1933, Perkins made history when she became President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of labor.) Johnny calls the moniker a “real grown-up name.”