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  2. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) " Tyrian purple " is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated " purpura ". Other contemporary English names for purpura are "imperial purple" and "royal purple". The English name "purple" itself originally denominated the specific color purpura.

  3. The Color Purple - Wikipedia

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    The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Danny Glover as Albert, and Oprah Winfrey as Sofia. Though nominated for eleven Academy Awards , it won none.

  4. The Color Purple (1985 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize –winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer ...

  5. Purple - Wikipedia

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    HTML color names. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments.

  6. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Tones of violet tending towards the blue are called indigo. Purple colors are colors that are various blends of violet or blue light with red light.

  7. The Color Purple (2023 film) - Wikipedia

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    It tells the story of Celie, an African American woman dealing with the hardships of living with an abusive husband and living in the American South during the early 1900s. The Color Purple premiered in London on November 20, 2023, and was released in the United States on December 25, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures.

  8. The Color Purple (musical) - Wikipedia

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    2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation.

  9. Mauve - Wikipedia

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    Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859.

  10. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    The bottom left of the curved edge is violet. Points near and along the circled edge are purple. The word violet as a color name derives from the Middle English and Old French violete, in turn from the Latin viola, the name of the violet flower. The first recorded use as a color name in English was in 1370. Relationship to purple

  11. The Color Purple (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple: Music From the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name released in November 1986 by Qwest Records. It consists of an original score composed by Quincy Jones and original songs performed by various artists.