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The color purple
Resource Information
The work The color purple represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

The Resource The color purple
Label
The color purple
Statement of responsibility
a Warner Bros. presents ; a Steven Spielberg film ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy ; produced by Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones ; screenplay by Menno Meyjes ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; Amblin Entertainment in association with Quincy Jones ; a Guber-Peters Company production
Contributor
  • Ivey, Dana
  • Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
  • Guber-Peters Company
  • Jackson, Desreta
  • Amblin Entertainment (Firm)
  • Jones, Quincy, 1933-
  • Kahn, Michael, 1935-
  • Riva, J. Michael
  • Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954-
  • Marshall, Frank
  • Rodgers, Aggie Guerard
  • Meyjes, Menno
  • Caesar, Adolph, 1933-1986
  • Patton, John, 1930-2005
  • Walker, Alice, 1944-
  • Peters, Jon
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Pugh, Willard
  • Chong, Rae Dawn
  • Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
  • Busia, Akosua
  • Daviau, Allen
  • Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
  • Avery, Margaret
  • Anderson, Carl, 1945-2004
  • Glover, Danny
  • Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-
  • Guber, Peter
  • Warner Home Video (Firm)
Actor
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Pugh, Willard
  • Patton, John, 1930-2005
  • Jackson, Desreta
  • Ivey, Dana
  • Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-
  • Glover, Danny
  • Anderson, Carl, 1945-2004
  • Avery, Margaret
  • Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
  • Busia, Akosua
  • Caesar, Adolph, 1933-1986
  • Chong, Rae Dawn
Costume designer
  • Rodgers, Aggie Guerard
Director of photography
  • Daviau, Allen
Editor of moving image work
  • Kahn, Michael, 1935-
Film director
  • Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
Film producer
  • Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954-
  • Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
  • Jones, Quincy, 1933-
  • Marshall, Frank
  • Guber, Peter
  • Peters, Jon
Production company
  • Amblin Entertainment (Firm)
  • Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
  • Guber-Peters Company
Production designer
  • Riva, J. Michael
Publisher
  • Warner Home Video (Firm)
Screenwriter
  • Meyjes, Menno
Subject
  • Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Film adaptations
  • Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Film and video adaptations
  • Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
  • Abused women
  • Abused women -- Southern States -- Drama
  • Adaptations cinématographiques
  • African American women
  • African American women -- Social conditions
  • African American women -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Drama
  • African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama
  • Drama
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Dysfunctional families -- Drama
  • Feature films
  • Feature films
  • Fiction films
  • Fiction films
  • Film adaptations
  • Film adaptations
  • Films de fiction
  • History
  • Sisters
  • Sisters -- Drama
  • Southern States
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • 1900-1999
  • Walker, Alice, 1944-
Genre
  • Film adaptations
  • Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired
  • History
  • Films de fiction
  • Film and video adaptations
  • Fiction films
  • Feature films
  • Drama
  • Adaptations cinématographiques
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Celie, a poor black Southern woman, whose friendship with two women helps her overcome the brutality of her father and husband
Cataloging source
JBO
Characteristic
videorecording
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Credits note
Costume designer, Aggie Guerard Rodgers ; music, Quincy Jones ; film editor, Michael Kahn ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; director of photography, Allen Daviau ; executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Guber
Dewey number
791.45/75
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13
Language note
In English or French with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned in English
LC call number
  • PN1992.77
  • PN1997.2
LC item number
  • .C656 2011
  • .C656 2011
PerformerNote
Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Willard Pugh, Whoopi Goldberg, Desreta Jackson, Dana Ivey, Larry Fishburne, Carl Anderson, John Patton, Jr
Runtime
153
Target audience
general
Technique
live action

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