Dreamgirls (film)

Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements starting in December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006. Adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name by composer Henry Krieger and lyricistlibrettist Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls is a biographical film film clef of the history of the Motown record label and one of its acts, The Supremes. The story follows the history and evolution of American RampB music during the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of a Detroit, Michigan girl group known as the Dreams and their manipulative record executive.

Backstage at an RampB amateur talent show at the Detroit Theatre in 1962, young car salesman Curtis Taylor Jr. meets a black girl group known as The Dreamettes lead singer Effie White and backup singers Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson. Curtis presents himself as The Dreamettes new manager and arranges for the girls to become backup singers for popular RampB singer Jimmy Thunder Early.Curtis soon starts his own record label, Rainbow Records, out of his Detroit car dealership, and appoints Effies brother C.C as his head songwriter. When their first single fails after another pop group releases a cover version, Curtis, C.C, and their producer Wayne turn to payola to make Jimmy and The Dreamettes mainstream pop stars. Offstage, Effie becomes infatuated with Curtis, while the married Jimmy begins an affair with Lorrell. ........

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