Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg's The Color Purple returning to theaters for 35th anniversary
In celebration of its 35th anniversary and Black History Month, the classic Steven Spielberg-directed period piece, based on the characters from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, is returning to movie theaters for one day only on Feb. 23.nabbed 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Score, and acting nominations for Goldberg, Winfrey, and costar Margaret Avery.
The movie stars Goldberg as a young woman in Georgia in the early 1900s who navigates life after suffering abuse at the hands of her father and later her husband. Along her journey, she finds strength through her companions Sofia and Shug Avery . It was Winfrey’s first film role and Goldberg’s second; they were 31 and 30, respectively, when the film debuted.
Goldberg went on to score the prestigious EGOT distinction, earning two Emmys, a Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Winfrey became, well,
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