who played the story's protagonist Celie Harris-Johnson. So, during the chat, Marc mentioned that he attended a "friends and family" screening of The Color Purple before its release. Cynthia ...

Whoopi Goldberg is similarly splendid as the grown-up Celie Harris-Johnson ... It's also clear that Stevie Boy saw "The Color Purple" as his answer to his idol John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath ...

This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 ...

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The first film adaptation of "The Color Purple" has achieved iconic status since its debut in December 1985. The Celie finger; Sofia, as portrayed by Oprah Winfrey, exclaiming the "You told Harpo ...

In her film debut, Whoopi Goldberg stars as Celie Harris-Johnson, a poor black woman in pre-WWII Georgia who suffers abuse at the hands of her brutal husband before eventually escaping to a new life.