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The Color Purple (1985 Movie)

Date set: 19091949

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Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Writer(s): Alice Walker (novel), Menno Meyjes

Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia

Setting:
Africa
Southern U.S.A.

Filming locations:
Anson County, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Ansonville, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Kenya
Huntley house (also known as the James Bennett Plantation) Lilesville, North Carolina, U.S.A. (main house, church, juke joint, and fields)
Marshville, North Carolina, U.S.A. (town scenes)
Newhall, California, U.S.A.
Stage 37, Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, U.S.A.
Railroad tracks, near Ansonville, North Carolina, U.S.A. (dream sequence where Celie throws gold chocolate coins to her sister)
Union County, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Anson County Courthouse, 114 North Greene Street, Wadesboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Office of Immigration and Naturalization)

IMDb link: The Color Purple (1985)


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