In the mid-1980s, Whoopi Goldberg ... could do anything. Movie stardom seemed a cinch. It was. Kind of. After making her dramatic debut in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," she scored a ...

Spike Lee, in "Film Comment," stated that Hollywood only greenlit the movie because the men in "The Color Purple" were depicted as "one-dimensional animals." Whoopi Goldberg, who played Celie in ...

4. She fought to be in The Color Purple Goldberg’s big film break was 1985’s The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg. It was only Goldberg’s second movie role and saw her play a woman ...