Whoopi Goldberg Color Purple. The color purple is a 1985 american coming of age period drama film directed by steven spielberg with a screenplay by menno meyjes based on the pulitzer prize winning 1982 novel of the same name by alice walker it was spielberg s eighth film as a director and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. With danny glover whoopi goldberg oprah winfrey margaret avery. The movie as with the book it was made.
Whoopi goldberg made her film debut in the color purple almost 10 years before i was born and on 13 november she turns 62 almost exactly 38 years before i will reach the same age. Whoopi goldberg loved the color purple before it was a movie. The color purple is a 1985 american coming of age period drama film directed by steven spielberg with a screenplay by menno meyjes based on the pulitzer prize winning 1982 novel of the same name by alice walker it was spielberg s eighth film as a director and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. But while the movie itself has aged a little rustily goldberg s delicate performance as celie a routinely abused black woman in the american south who eventually finds her strength in the relationships she.
A black southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
But while the movie itself has aged a little rustily goldberg s delicate performance as celie a routinely abused black woman in the american south who eventually finds her strength in the relationships she. Author alice walker released the color purple in 1982 and it made waves at the time for the honest ways it portrayed the lives of black women. It touched countless women including goldberg. Author alice walker released the color purple in 1982 and it made waves at the time for the honest ways it portrayed the lives. Whoopi goldberg loved the color purple before it was a movie.