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Patrick Swayze -- the actor who helped make dirty dancing a worldwide phenomenon -- died today in Los Angeles after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Patrick Swayze, the Hollywood actor whose role in Dirty Dancing inspired a generation of ordinary girls to believe their dreams could come true, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.