• Mountain Lake, one of only two natural lakes in Virginia, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing?

Facts on topics related to Dirty Dancing

Patrick Swayze

• Patrick Swayze was the star of the first and only season of the 1982 television show The Renegades?
• Leonie Pray House hosted recitals by Liberace and Risë Stevens and served as the home of Patrick Swayze's character in Donnie Darko?

Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

• Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast?

Academy Award

• Academy Award nominated screenwriter Ivan Moffat was the grandson of Victorian actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree?
• Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin's Road Records store before its closure in January 2009?
• Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
• Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
• Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
• Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages?
• Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States?
• film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols, earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
• Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards?
• J. D. Chakravarthy's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed?