Satin, invited to the show by Levi, takes up with Sister, who leaves home to move in with him. The girls, now known as “Sister & the Sisters”, debut at the seedy Shan-Doo Club their immediate success gains them a position as regular performers there. Stix decides to repackage the group as an all-girl trio, appointing Sister lead singer and reducing his role in the act to manager and songwriter. Shortly afterwards, however, Levi drops out of the group so that he can become an important man in the operations of local gangster Satin (Tony King). The Hearts enter a local talent show contest, which they win with the help of Sister’s stage appeal. Stix, a budding songwriter who is in love with Sparkle, wants to start a group, and arranges the five of them into a quintet called “The Hearts”. The girls’ mother, Effie (Mary Alice), works hard as a maid for the Gerber family on Long Island and struggles to keep her girls, especially the “high-spirited” Sister, safe. The Williams sisters – Sister (Lonette McKee), Dolores (Dwan Smith), and Sparkle (Irene Cara) – are singers in their local church’s teenagers’ choir along with their friends Stix (Philip Michael Thomas) and Levi (Dorian Harewood).
Sparkle 1976 cast movie#
The movie starts at 1958’s Harlem, New York. Curtis Mayfield served as the composer and producer of Sparkle’s songs and score. The film stars Philip Michael Thomas (later of Miami Vice fame), Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood, and Tony King. Inspired by The Supremes, Sparkle is a period film set in Harlem, New York during the late 1950s and early 1960s which follows the rough lives and careers of singer Sparkle Williams and her family and friends. Sparkle is a 1976 American film directed by Sam O’Steen and released by Warner Bros. However, I am sure it will be a great movie, so look out:) Unfortunately the new movie will be Whitney’s last one and also very unfortunate is that one of my idols, Aaliyah won’t be in it as originally planned before her tragic dead in 2001. I am looking forward to seeing what they changed and how they changed it. I have seen it and I thought it is a great musical movie. Houston’s death in February “is terribly tragic,” she said.I am very excited for the remake of this movie to come out in August this year, starring Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter and Whitney Houston.( Check out the trailer I put up here) I thought to refresh everybody’s memories ahead I would put a summary of the 1976 version up. When Whitney came on to the scene, every time I saw her I saw a little bit of her mother in her.” They were doing a tribute to Burt Bacharach. “I remember seeing her mother, Cissy, when I was little,” Cara recalled. She had met Houston a few times over the years. I started hanging out in nightclubs, and I was sowing my oats.”Ĭara said she wasn’t asked to appear in the new “Sparkle” but was invited to the premiere, which she was unable to attend because of recent foot surgery. I wanted to be my own woman and all of this. “I got an apartment near where we were filming. So when she began making “Fame” she felt like rebelling against her parents. Cara admitted that most child actors like herself feel that they lost out on a childhood.
Not only was “Fame” a watershed moment in her career, it also marked a personal independence. After doing off-Broadway, she made her Broadway debut in 1968 with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy in the musical “Maggie Flynn.”
Sparkle 1976 cast tv#
Cara, who is of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, sang on Spanish-language TV as well as appearing on “The Original Amateur Hour,” “The Tonight Show” and “The Electric Company” with Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman. The Bronx-born Cara started in show business as a 3-year-old when she was a finalist in the “Little Miss America” pageant. The second CD is a lot of jazz and even some live performances in the studio with the girls just jamming.” “There are several tunes that we wrote together and tracks we wrote separately. “Hot Caramel” is a “record for adults, it is not for kids or teens,” said Cara. I started searching for really prominent women artists who were the whole package in my mind.” “I wanted to present a super group of extraordinarily talented women musicians and singers and songwriters. “I really wanted to put all of my energies into my project,” she said.
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