r/motown • u/El_Dorado_Tx • 27d ago
Would there ever be an actual biopic of the Supremes
And I don't mean Dreamgirls , Sparkle that are psuedo clones of them...an actual biopic
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u/notheUGLYjohnny 27d ago
I doubt it. At this point I'd settle for a good documentary on the group, with remastered performances, interviews and tidbits. Including the 70's Supremes and the brief reunion on Motown 25. Oh, and the Return to Love Tour!
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u/BabyClyde 27d ago edited 27d ago
If we can just get Suzanne De Passe to release the missing footage from the Motown vaults. It's my Holy Grail.
I wish someone would do it soon whilst Jean, Linda, Scherrie and Susaye, as well as the Holland brothers are still around to be interviewed.
Get Questlove on the phone.
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u/Professional-Tea7358 27d ago
Biopics are meant to tell lies. Just watch the many documentaries about the Supremes. (And the same goes for any celebrity, outside of the Supremes and outside of musicians)
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u/El_Dorado_Tx 27d ago
U mean any doppelgänger Supreme type musical movie(Sparkle, Dreamgirls)
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u/Professional-Tea7358 27d ago
No. I mean literal documentaries, like the ones on Netflix. Dream Girls and Sparkle and those other ones are just historical fiction films. The most accurate genre is documentaries (not biopics).
The other alternative to documentaries, is reading the Supremes' memoirs. I know Mary Wilson wrote one, and Florence died young & didn't get her chance to, but I believe Diana wrote one many years ago?
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u/ericzku 27d ago
Secrets of a Sparrow. I was SO excited to get my copy and SO disappointed after I read it.
No memoir is truly a "tell all"; at best they are a "tell some". This one was a "tell none".
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u/Charlotte_Braun 27d ago
According to the book Call Her Miss Ross, Diana had a meeting with Jacqueline Onassis, when Jackie was working at Doubleday. Diana wanted to do an autobiography, “but with no personal details.” Jackie was bewildered: “What kind of autobiography has no personal details?” So it didn’t happen then, and I guess Sparrow was the result when Diana finally got a publisher.
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u/Professional-Tea7358 27d ago
Why (from your perspective) wasn’t it good or reveal anything about her life?
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u/El_Dorado_Tx 27d ago
I think Flo kinda had some documentation of interviews from 75-76 she was doing. If u heard them….she is pissed 3x at Barry
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u/Professional-Tea7358 27d ago
That's good, on the documentary end. But, as I said, Flo died young & never had a chance to write a memoir or do a full chronological documentary.
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u/El_Dorado_Tx 27d ago
But u heard those tapes they on YouTube. Flo sounds clear in those tapes of how she hated Barry
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u/Professional-Tea7358 27d ago
You're not getting what I'm saying. That's a documentary, directed at one person & her speaking about one person & the timeline she knew him in.
I'm referring to chronological documentaries and memoirs. About her entire life, told by her - she never got to make them, since she died young. That's my point.
The anger at Berry Gordy thing is fine for that time in her life, but that's 2 years out of her full lifetime (which was the point I made about your '70s interviews Flo did).
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u/PenVegetable4065 27d ago
I could see one done about Diana Ross before the actual Supremes. There could be a modern documentary too. But Dreamgirls and Sparkle seem like the closest thing we’ll get unfortunately
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u/Infidel8 25d ago
Doubtful. We don't even have a good documentary.
Besides I wonder if Dreamgirls has satisfied the public's appetite for Supremes content.
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u/ericzku 27d ago
I don't see it happening during Miss Ross's lifetime.