Hairspray (1988 film) film version of "Hairspray", an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for "The Corny Collins Show", a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life "Buddy Deane Show"). Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). However, despite being
Swan Turnblad his wife, and their daughter. Built on a combination of six city lots, the home cost $1.5 million ($ million in ) and took four years to complete. The family moved into their new home in 1908. While it was their official residence, they spent most of their time living in an apartment across the street after 1915. After Turnblad's wife died in 1929, he and his daughter moved into the apartment full-time and turned their former home into a museum. Turnblad created the American Institute for Swedish Art, Literature and Science (later renamed to the American Swedish Institute), which