#Sparkle 1976 songs movie#

By this time, he has moved back to New York and gained employment with a record label, and offers to produce Sparkle as a solo star. Several months later, Sister has died of drug overdose, and Stix reconciles with Sparkle after her funeral. He leaves Harlem to work in construction upstate, breaking Sparkle’s heart in the process. Sister’s drug use and her life in the “big time” caused her to relinquish her position as lead singer of the group, and a frustrated Stix gives up on music. Regretful and weary of life in Harlem, Dolores packs up and leaves home in order to pursue her dreams of racial equality. Dolores calls the police to let them know when and where Satin’s next drug pick-up will be, but Levi is the one caught in the sting. When Dolores learns that Satin has gotten her hooked on drugs, she plots revenge, coming on to one of Satin’s flunkies in order to set the kingpin up. Sister begins showing up at the Shan-Doo with bruises from Satin’s abuse and begins taking cocaine.

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 songs 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. 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.