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.