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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 ...
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.
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.
Who is in the cast of the new 'Color Purple'? Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson and H.E.R. star as leading ladies of Celie, Sofia, Shug and Squeak, respectively.
For superfans and newbies alike, we've compiled a who’s who of the 1985 The Color Purple and 2023 musical casts.
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Read on to see how the cast has changed from the 1985 film to the 2023 movie. Whoopi Goldberg and Fantasia Barrino as Celie Whoopi Goldberg, Fantasia Barrino (Everett Collection, Warner Bros.)
While The Color Purple ultimately has a happy ending, the 1985 movie version especially spends plenty of time watching tragedy and abuse befall Black women. The musical, while not shying away from ...
Busia played Nettie, the younger sister of Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie Harris, in Steven Spielberg's 1985 The Color Purple, adapted from Alice Walker's novel of the same title, as Ruth in Badge of the Assassin (1985), as Jewel in John Singleton's Rosewood (1997), and as Patience in Antoine Fuqua's Tears of the Sun (2003).
The surprise appearance marks yet another way that the 2023 film carries on the legacy of the 1985 movie; it is produced by Spielberg and Quincy Jones, who were behind that adaptation, as well as ...
Released: December 1985 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.