RMKPDAPM–The Color Purple (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. The big screen adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life on an oppressed and abused black woman in Georgia at the start of the 20th century.
RM2T3R1FH–The Color Purple Whoopi Goldberg
RM2G4GRNN–Black dress worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple, 1985. The short-sleeved shift dress is made from a single piece of black rayon-cotton blend satin that is folded in half at the shoulder and seamed down each side, with a neck hole cut at the fold. A gusset made of the satin blend is sewn at each side seam reaching approximately 9 inches above the hem. The sleeves are edged with a brown, green, and purple paisley printed cotton and trimmed in red rickrack. Black silk satin panels are sewn into each underarm with the wrong side facing. The collarless neck is also trimmed in the red
RMARPKYT–Four VHS video films popular with women, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop café (1991) written by fannie Flagg, Directed by John Avnet, with Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson, The Colour Purple (1985) Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, The Goodbye Girl (1977) Directed by Herbert Ross. With Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, You’ve Got Mail (1998) Directed by Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear
RMC1YDG7–THE COLOR PURPLE 1985 Warner Brothers film with Whoopi Goldberg