Is the Cleopatra film meant to represent Mahogany or something?

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alexanderreid19 — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 07:59 AM)

Anyone?
I don't have to conform to the vagaries of time and space. I'm a looney for God's sake!

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RumandCoke — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 02:14 PM)

No. Not really. However, the huge blow ups of Deena in Curtis' office and bedroom and the "When I First Saw You" montage with Deena in various fashions including her "Cleopatra" costume and make-up were inspired from the 1975 film, "Mahogany".
This should come as no surprise as "Dreamgirls" is considered a fictionalized version of the rise of Diana Ross & The Supremes.

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alcockell — 12 years ago(June 03, 2013 03:32 AM)

However, it is in the same point in the timeline
And a "Theme from Cleopatra" would be aired as part of TOTP in an alternate April 1976

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carlvscus — 11 years ago(April 02, 2015 09:29 PM)

Not quite - while the photo shoot and images were likely inspired by "Mahogany," I believe that the Cleopatra subplot is referring to Diana Ross' next film "
The Wiz (1978)
," in which she played the lead role of Dorothy. Ms Ross came under a lot of flack for playing a part that should have gone to someone closer to the character's age - which, incidentally, was Deena Jones' chief objection to her manager / husband insistence that she play someone in a movie that for most of the time would have been 16 yrs old

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MarkAntney — 10 years ago(April 19, 2015 08:54 AM)

You beat me to it, so all I can do is Sign Off on it:):)
The Wiz is really the only answer, for her other movies she got decent reviews and box office.

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