the color purple

     

The only time 3 African-American women were nominated for Oscars for work in the same movie was for this film

Trivia about the color purple

  • It was Alice Walker's third novel
  • (Oprah reads the clue from a chair.) I told my audience about the thing I wanted most in my life, the role of Sofia in this movie; the moment I surrendered to the possibility it wouldn't happen was when I got the call from Steven Spielberg
  • Many of the letters in this epistolary Alice Walker novel are written by Celie to God
  • David Letterman walked Oprah to the opening of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel
  • Quincy Jones co-produced this 1985 Steven Spielberg film & provided its musical score
  • This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • Oprah's lucky she didn't suffer from porphyrophobia, fear of this, or she wouldn't have done the '85 film
  • Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey & Margaret Avery all won Oscar nominations for this 1985 film
  • In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants
  • In this novel, Celie wrote to her sister about her bad marriage only to find her husband kept the return letters
  • This Alice Walker novel tells Celie's story through letters she writes to God & her sister
  • In "The Same River Twice" Alice Walker talks about the making of this film, based on her novel
  • In 2007 Fantasia of "American Idol" took over the role of Celie in the musical based on this Alice Walker novel
  • 1982:"Then I hear my name. Shug saying Celie. Miss Celie"
  • For a spot on Oprah, Crayola made a special crayon of her favorite hue & called it this, also a movie title
  • A fiction Pulitzer Prize winner for 1983: "A Lavender Pigment"
  • This Pulitzer-winning novel is told through letters written by a Southern black woman named Celie
  • "Miss Celie's Pants" & "Shug Avery Comin' To Town" are songs featured in this Broadway musical
  • This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God