Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Monday, September 14, 2009 | 8:58 p.m. CDT; updated 11:32 p.m. CDT, Monday, September 14, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

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