"You're sanitizing me and my friends, and other people who I love and adore. Why?" the actress said The Color Purple cast member Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor wanted the film to go further in its ...

The Color Purple' (Dec. 25) "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino might be seeing the color gold this awards season. She takes on her first major movie role in "The Color Purple," a film version ...

Spike Lee, in "Film Comment," stated that Hollywood only greenlit the movie because the men in "The Color Purple" were depicted as "one-dimensional animals." Whoopi Goldberg, who played Celie in ...

Variety reports that the movie musical added $7.1 million to its ... Prize winning novel and the 2005 Broadway musical, The Color Purple is an unforgettable story of enduring love and triumph ...

(JTA) – The bright, colorful movie musical “The Color Purple,” which opens in theaters on Christmas, tells a story that has by now become a familiar part of the American canon — of a young ...

In 1909 Celie a black American girl is given away in marriage by her abusive father to a local farmer Albert who treats her cruelly. Celie is God fearing and deliverance comes in the form of jazz ...

“So tonight we honor the true American legend whose music and movies continue to inspire ... He also scored “The Color Purple,” for which he also served as a producer. Quincy Jones was ...

The media mogul dazzled on the red carpet at 'The Color Purple' world premiere in Los ... Getty Images Winfrey is a producer of the upcoming movie musical and she also played the character Sofia ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. During the interview, Brooks revealed that ...

For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “ The Color Purple ” premiered as a musical production in Eatonton, the birthplace of acclaimed author Alice ...