4. She fought to be in The Color Purple Goldberg’s big film break was 1985’s The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg. It was only Goldberg’s second movie role and saw her play a woman ...

In the mid-1980s, Whoopi Goldberg ... could do anything. Movie stardom seemed a cinch. It was. Kind of. After making her dramatic debut in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," she scored a ...

The “Color Purple” star complained that men have “decided that the women you’re looking at are not good enough” or that “they’re not pretty enough.” Whoopi Goldberg at the Garden ...