No One Made a Better Film Debut than Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple
Legendary acting teacher Uta Hagen gave Goldberg the tools she needed to create her revelatory performance.
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Acting is an art form, and behind every iconic character is an artist expressing themselves. Welcome to The Great Performances, a bi-weekly column exploring the art behind some of cinema’s best roles. In this entry, we revisit Whoopi Goldberg’s debut performance in The Color Purple.
The road to
Whoopi Goldberg’s role in
The Color Purple was paved by her work on the stage. In the early 1980s, Goldberg wrote a one-woman play called
Moral Courage Documentary Film Series Reveals Previously Unknown Stories of Rescues of Jewish Fugitives in Holocaust
Six interview-based stories of heroism by Rescuers of Jewish fugitives during the Holocaust are available, with study guides, for teachers of Holocaust studies in schools and universities. Washington, DC, December 14, 2020 (PR.com) “Moral Courage,” a collection of award-winning documentary films about Rescuers of Jewish fugitives during the Holocaust is now conveniently available to teachers of the Holocaust, via a new website: https://www.frankwbaker.com/mlc/moral-courage
The films feature Rescuer events that occurred in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy and Germany. The films run between 28 or 58 minutes, with narration by Alan Alda, Liv Ullmann, Irene Papas, Eli Wallach, Uta Hagen and others. Each film includes a study guide for teachers, prepared by South Carolina ETV.