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Purple Rain is a 1984 American romantic rock musical drama film scored by and starring Prince in his acting debut. Developed to showcase his talents, it contains several concert sequences, featuring Prince and his band The Revolution .
Key sources: Alan Light’s “Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of ‘Purple Rain,’” Per Nilsen’s “Prince: A Documentary” and Duane Tudahl’s “Prince and the ‘Purple Rain ...
For 40 years, fans of Prince have been “laughing” and “bathing” in his movie “Purple Rain.” In the semi-autobiographical musical, released on July 27, 1984, Prince played “the Kid ...
Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 romantic musical comedy-drama film starring Prince and marking his directorial debut.The follow-up to his 1984 film debut Purple Rain, it also stars former The Time member Jerome Benton, Steven Berkoff, Kristin Scott Thomas (in her feature film debut), and Francesca Annis.
Albert Magnoli (born c. 1954) [1] is an American film director, screenwriter and editor best known for directing the films Purple Rain, Tango & Cash (replacement director), Street Knight, and American Anthem. Magnoli also served as editor of the 1984 film Reckless.
Prince’s iconic Purple Rain is being adapted for Broadway.. The 1984 film, which marked the musician’s acting debut, grossed close to $100 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for best ...
"When Doves Cry" is a song by American musician Prince, and the lead single from his sixth studio album Purple Rain.According to the DVD commentary of the film Purple Rain (1984), Prince was asked by director Albert Magnoli to write a song to match the theme of a particular segment of the film that involved Prince's character The Kid's intermingled parental difficulties with his father Francis ...
This access fed into the deeply researched Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years, weaving a first-person narrative into the complete telling of the story of the album and film.The book goes beyond ...