Sparkle (1976) | Delores Was The Most Underrated Sister!

Sparkle is a 1976 American musical drama film directed by Sam O'Steen and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. With a plot inspired by the history of the Supremes, Sparkle is a period film set in Harlem, New York, during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It presents the story of a musical girl group that ends up breaking apart due to individual issues each member faces. This film not only "recreates the magic of a special period in American history, but it explores the effect of Harlem's musical and social culture on the rest of the world," as well as the linkages to black power.
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[@nicolesherman8974]

Watching the scene where Stix and Sparkle sing to one another is going to hit different. RIP Irene Cara ❤️❤️🕊️

[@nicolesherman8974]

This movie and The Five Heartbeats will always have replay value and will bring a smile to my face (even though Sparkle took a dark twist near the end of the film) 😢.

[@sherrylatrice8733]

Yes, I was always team Delores! She was the smoothest dancer. She was smart and ambitious. And she really loved her family and just wanted what was best for them. So misunderstood.

[@MaryLou913]

She disagreed with Sister a lot but she REALLY loved her. She put her body on the line, messing with the sidekick of Satin. She tried to help but her guilt pushed her out of that house and out of that city. She couldn’t stay and watch her sister die, plus she wanted more.

[@daniellej7914]

Mama knew satin wasn’t shit from the beginning staring him up and down

[@ladylequvia7]

"I lived in Harlem all my life, I know a rat when I see one." Mama was on point. 💯💯💯💯

[@daniellej7914]

@@ladylequvia7indeed

[@kota2000cj]

Regarding Delores...the streets be talking. Back then once she snitched she had to leave town and lay low. That was the protocol

[@JTRocks1]

Yep, for sure! 😮

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Sister had it all and didn't realize it. She was beautiful and talented. And if she didn't get caught up she probably would have made it out of her situation.

[@TG5455]

Sparkle's mermaid dress at the end of the movie is a 10 out of 10. 😍

[@MaryLou913]

Her hair was up and beautifully done like her sister. She was showing homage, just beautiful.

[@ms305juicy]

Rest in peace Irene Cara ❤️🕊️

[@ladylequvia7]

Although sad, I love the original because the emotions and storyline were raw and the soundtrack is memorable. I still get angry, sad, and happy throughout the scenes. I love the remake only because the storyline was different with Sister killing Satin aka Satan instead of Sister dying. It was Whitney's last film and although Jordin Sparks did a great job as Sparkle, I find myself imagining Aaliyah as Sparkle. Delores leaving in the original movie was so inspiring. And yes she was slept on, smart and ambitious. That scene with her standing up to her mom helped me later on. Finally, the original cast was legendary: Lonette McKee, Dorian Harewood, Irene Cara, Mary Alice, Philip Michael Thomas. My parents were teens during the original release and they resemble Dorian Harewood and Lonette McKee. I often see their storyline mirror what my parents went through: wanting better, abuse, etc. The way you broke this down was on point.

[@amethyst3139]

"He's a good man Savannah" the way I hollered 😂. This movie will forever be a classic. Great review as always Tyra 💜

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you!! 😁

[@MaryLou913]

Very Funky Dinevaish! 😂😂😄

[@jasminehill6312]

Agreed! The OG version definitely stands on it’s own❤️❤️

[@MaryLou913]

Definitely!

[@MaryLou913]

If it wasn’t all that the movie would have never been remade. Lowkey the new version woulda never got remade!

[@brianmagee6595]

I love both versions R.I.P. Irene Cara and Whitney Houston true Queens that will always be remembered as legends.

[@CandieP]

Your analysis on Satin Struthers is so spot on and reminiscent of my beautiful, talented and intelligent late Aunt who was unalived by her insecure, under achieving and bruised Ego husband back in 88’. 😞

[@GenX7119]

The actor playing Satin was really a real boxer named Tony King; he goes by the name Malik Farrakhan now.

[@MaryLou913]

He is everything! He so loves hearing from fans of Sparkle. He’s very proud of this film! He also was a model too and get this, he was the only Black person in ‘The Godfather.’ 😂

[@tonit336]

Great film, Irene Cara did a great performance as Sparkle, Whitney Houston's favorite film and she got the film rights back in 2000 and she wanted Aaliyah to star in the film, but the film wouldn't start production until 2012

[@jamalpettiway7891]

Fun fact: McKee was an actual music artist, before sparkle she even had a mini hit when she was a teenager. I do think she recorded a couple albums through the years you can look up if interested.

[@crishnaholmes7730]

Which songs did you like

[@MaryLou913]

⁠​⁠You’re not asking me but ‘Sometimes,’ ‘At Least I Had You One Time,’ and ’Maybe There Are Reasons,’ are my jams & are still in rotation!

[@sweetnovember7925]

Oh sh*t my KZbin sis and my KZbin cuzn doing a collab for the after party..im here for it. I need something to make me laugh and smile right now because life is lifeing hard😩

[@TG5455]

Hope you are doing well and trust me I know what is like when life gets tough. ❤️✊

[@muminaharris81]

Yes lawd I feel you. These videos put me elsewhere when I need it to. Praying you gain the strength to push thru ❤

[@sweetnovember7925]

@muminaharris81 yasss these videos help cope in this crazy life..I pray for you as well ❤️

[@sweetnovember7925]

@TG5455 thank you I'm good making it through..thank you and I appreciate your kind words🫶🏽

[@TG5455]

@@sweetnovember7925 You're welcome.

[@lamontt808]

U got a great singing voice Love sparkle very slept on movie it's is a classic

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you!

[@jennaebranch4293]

Original Over Anything & Everything❗️... Remakes R Never Good Enuff Anymore‼️.

[@ScorpionLee1]

The scene where Levi looks at sister's picture in jail heartbreak scene yes I cried. Especially the song playing in the background😥😥😥 Rip Irene cara

[@kimc8113]

I have watched this movie more times than I can count since it first aired in the 70s ❤❤❤

[@sierrahall1717]

What I liked most about the remake is Sister lived!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾 I remember watching the original with my uncle at my aunts house and I cried like a baby when Sister died!! 😢😢 What really triggered my crying was when Levi got the news Sister died, and he was walking back to his ceil and had a picture of her taped on the wall!! Broke my heart!! 💔💔😭😭😭 I was probably 12 when I watched it that first time!! as much as the OG Sparkle had me crying I'm still casting my vote for that one!! ✔✅👌🏾

[@jeraldarmstrong4886]

Respect to your channel. You have a wonderful gift. This sparkle was the best because of Lonette Mckee and the cinemetography. The movie was shot like it was a low budget tubi movie but the actors were so good I didn't pay any attention to that. Like the subtle zoom in as Lonnette McKee sings What can I do. It had me thinking I had paid my money and I was at the club watching the group. Lonette was phenomenal and I wished her songs were on the soundtracks as well. You also changed my view on Delores. Satin Struthers... mercy he was rough. Great review and keep up the good work.

[@adrina911]

I love the old version it’s the old G but sister death was toreture. The new version was great as well, very polished and good looking.

[@ShonnysLab1995]

I was waiting for this, and I agree the original movie/ soundtrack is the best. I did love Mike Epps performance in the remake tho. Great review 💯

[@reneew.1100]

The Sparkle Soundtrack is EVERYTHING!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@qu33niemonroe64]

This was my mom's favorite movie before she passed the watch the new one

[@luvMali0206]

love rewatching the original

[@Moonhart44]

Thank you for reviewing this classic

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

I watched this movie about a year ago on tubi. It was good.

[@chinasherron7457]

I always cry when sister dies 1, because I just love the character and 2, because my mama n McKee look so similar

[@biancachi6435]

I feel like we are the same person. I agree 1000% this movie scared me straight when I was young

[@zuzuspeaks]

Love both versions, Rest In Peace Irene Cara 🙏

[@anitabrundidge4043]

All time favorite movie 😊

[@monicadavis2188]

Yes, gurl!!! This is one of my favorite movie. Your review was everything.

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you ❤

[@TG5455]

The movie was slow at points, and the camera shots and lighting at points were a pain to watch but besides those problems, it was a good movie.

[@reneew.1100]

The original is the BEST!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

When he was playing that pino all fast and angrily n was getting upset lol

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Great acting in this great cast.

[@doridarling]

One of my favs 💙💙💙

[@keptbygrace6221]

I've never seen the new version bc I loved the old one so much.

[@fletcherwilliams5947]

Awesome review 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you! 🤗

[@etoyforte]

The remake didn't depict what "One Wing" signified. Which is important in understanding the meaning of the song.

[@MaryLou913]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@PrincessofPower84]

So many hard hitters in the OG: Irene Cara, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood, PMT, Amelia McQueen. Lovely! ❤

[@Yammyalexis91113]

🤣you got to do falling down 😂funny micheal Douglas was cra cra in that movie😂🤣

[@luvMali0206]

I love this movie and wonder about Delores as well

[@lavearnlondon5546]

Enjoyed your show…the comparison of the two movies is refreshing!!

[@dearleanbailey4634]

You have a nice voice I go along what your saying about sparkle

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you

[@msjerseyd-thc]

Now this is my favorite movie of all time! Sista was the original DIVA Chile.. 😂 doin too much! Down to the "gutttah" she went, smh. ❤ ya reviews sis!

[@Daycarewiththekids]

I never watched this sparkle. I always watched the remake of it never knew that sister died in this one.

[@MaryLou913]

Girl you missing out!

[@kota2000cj]

Missed the live but Sister was on that herion

[@MaryLou913]

Is that what it was? Makes sense because she seemed like she was sick without it, but wait wasn’t she sniffing something when she said ‘Sister can’t fly with one wing?’

[@kshinokevin]

Ricardo Tubbs is in this film ? (Phillip Michael Thomas' role in the 1980's NBC tv action show, "Miami Vice."); 20:29 - Mary Alice (I liked her in "Beat Street"): "Eat your Eggs, before I break Your Legs."

[@BetweenUandB]

Little known fact: The background for ‘Sister & The Sisters’ isn’t sung by Irene Cara and Dwan Smith (even though they could sing) but by the Kitty Haywood Singers. They were a female group made up of four ladies. Kitty Haywood is actor/singer Jason Weaver’s mother.

[@erykahhoward4431]

WOW thanks for that great information 👍🏿learn something new everyday. Jason Weaver is very talented , he played the hell outta Michael Jackson and he's KILLN it on THE CHI🙌🏿

[@msjerseyd-thc]

Oh and Yes! I agree with the Sisters singing as opposed to Aretha. No shade. But they was giving smoky club stank feelin.. especially with those silhouette shots. Epic!

[@VaL-ln3im]

Uugh. I did NOT get my notification

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Aww man!

[@JTRocks1]

😐@@StruggleReviewzTV

[@MsDisneylandlover]

U have a good voice..i been trying to be doing that arm thing dance. Lol.

[@kota2000cj]

This was a great review. You nailed the songs and voices as usual Girl!

[@Joy-cn1mj]

You did a great job on this!!

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you !

[@jamesgibson3716]

Tony King definitely made me hate him in this role... wonderful review

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you ❤

[@staceyh7656]

Awesome review. Crazy that I have not watched this movie in awhile but your review makes me want to re-watch as always. ❤️

[@etoyforte]

The album was originally going to have the girls from the movie on it. But when it was released, to their surprise it was all Aretha Franklin.

[@gemini365ayear]

The Remake 1000%💞The Music omg 💃

[@empressventress2938]

Yet ANOTHER entertaining video 🎉 ❤ great content

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thank you so much 😁

[@MaryLou913]

🎉🎉🎉 Yes the OG ‘Sparkle’ is MUCH better! -Oh my God, you agree Mike Epps showed out?! Thank you! Me, personally it is the ONLY good thing in that movie. I did like how Delores’ character was better fleshed out tho! -Ok! 🙌🏽 The music wasn’t hitting like the OG version! Ok! No comparison. And Carmen was jacking off the microphone, whispering in the mic, dress up to her puss and still wasn’t nearly as sexy, vivacious and alluring as the OG Sister that didn’t hatta do nothing, honey, but give them a little shoulder. - Damn! You’re the only other person that peeped Styx’s opportunistic way he handles Sparkle, specifically when he comes back for the funeral. -Very good understanding of Sister’s motivations, ‘I deserve to be kept too!’ Damn. - I love when you sing! You give me life! I said that on the ‘Purple Rain’ video! - Actually Lonette was a recording artist! She has some beautiful songs. You will be blessed once you take a listen. ‘Words and Music’ is my favorite. - Once again, you gave great commentary on wanting to ‘possess’ Sister’s beauty- even Sparkle a little bit. She always deferred to Sister’s beauty, as if it’s in her grasp but she doesn’t quite have it. ‘Seek and destroy.’ -It was sad Sparkle went and got the drugs for her sister but Sparkle loved Sister! She probably viewed it as Sister’s sick unless she gets this stuff and this is what’s going to make her feel better and this is what’s going to make her happier with me. She felt she was taking care of her. Remember, she says, “Nobody understood Sister but ME!” - Delores was pragmatic, but she loved Sister too! She gave her body for her sister, wanting to save her life! In general, Delores was too far ahead! -“I didn’t drop a dime on you but I wish I did!” I like when he said, “You been beating on women too long!” -Yes they wrote Delores out of the rest of the movie. As an aside, Dorothy Dandridge was very close to her sister Vivian, but Vivian ended up ghosting Dorothy and her mother like ✌🏽 and it was very traumatic someone leaving and not saying bye, where she’s going, nothing. Even though Delores said bye it reminds me of their situation. She was so worried about being gone Vivian missed Dorothy’s funeral too. 🤦🏽‍♀️ -I read a comment that said maybe Mr. Gerber, Mama’s employer, was Sister and Sparkle’s father. I, like you, thought they all had different fathers but maybe… -Yes, Sparkle did finally come into her own. She kinda like you said is always looking after everyone else and doesn’t have a strong identity, she’s always used to being overlooked for Sister but ends up finding some inner strength. - Satin was so memorable, a very beautiful man who played this monstrous character but he’s a good person, Malik Farrakhan, he played the role well, so well he said he had old ladies coming up to him going off for HIS treatment of Sister. 😂😂😂 -Yes, Sister sang the 💩 out of them songs! She really was a standout actress, should’ve won an Oscar, seriously, if she were White she might have. -I think Levy wanted to get $ to get Sister back. He knew what she wanted and what she aspired too, imo. Thank you for the video. 🙏🏽 ❤

[@tyrondacoleman2694]

You betta sing

[@tiravaughn9386]

I love your reviews! What is the sung in your intro and outro? It always has meen doing a body roll😂

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

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[@MsDisneylandlover]

Levi had no business showing off his girlfriend.maybe he would have never lost to thst s.o.b.

[@daniellej7914]

Sister should have ran like hell after seeing him hit that woman in her stomach

[@MsDisneylandlover]

What can i do with this loving Jump song Giving something he can feel I love their outfits Original is the best one sorry❤❤❤

[@themostbeautifulisraw4561]

Can you do Sister Sister w Diahann Carroll and Irene Cara?

[@Daydreams-hu2fs]

Original sparkle and that's coming from someone who is only 26 but the remake was good too you guys know Aaliyah was originally set to play sparkle in the remake

[@MsDisneylandlover]

In the new one when he was hitter her with the belt i was like omg what hell.

[@michellepreston9799]

I hated the remake. It just didn't make sense. They sugar-coated everything and went too far off script.

[@ronaldwalker492]

Original ….good feeling movie! The other was a long video!

[@jfly919]

Sparkle is one of my favorite movies of all times. The remake, I’ve never even seen it. I’m sorry, it’s blasphemy 😅 The songs were amazing. The acting was amazing. I still love Sister to this day and Satin Struthers … I don’t know who the actor is, but he will always be the devil to me too

[@dominiquedevereux7205]

The O.G. version had more GRIT 2 it. It felt more like we were watching a "making of the band" type of fly on the wall type of feel, whereas the remake was polished/ samitized to the point where it didn't give me that street feel that we get in the original that really made you feel the sisters were REALLY on their grind. And the way Carmen Ejogo sang --- it sounds like she's TRYING to sound sexy. Her version sounds like if Jessica Simpson had been tasked to sing the songs. And Jessica can sing, i e. "I Wanna Love You Forever," "Where You Are," "Your Faith in Me;", BUT she tries to hard to sound sexy a lot of the time instead of letting it come forth naturally. On the other hand, Lonette McKee 💃🏽 was naturally sexy. Her voice was nice, but between her & Irene Cara, she had the lesser voice, but she had the "Presence." BTW --- Did the actress who played the sister "Delores" actually sing her part in the backgrounds? I don't believe she had any solos, but wondered if she still sang anyway 🤔?

[@dreshakur8190]

Can you do the Clark sisters review

[@MissAblue676792]

I don't like the original nor the remake! 😒😐 Great review though! You don't disappoint! 😊

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

Thanks! ❤

[@MsDisneylandlover]

That song giving up n how she look..how she went look on that stage. Smh..

[@MaryLou913]

Beauty wilting 🥀

[@mythoughtsandopinions7895]

Ok unpopular opinion but i dont like the original. I watched the remake first but my sister and i tried to watch the original with open minds but i just couldnt get into it but I do like that when sparkle and stix sang look into your heart❤❤.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Can you do mommy dearest

[@MaryLou913]

Ooh that’s a good one for her to do!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Girl only times have u c this lol. U need to get into acting yourself.

[@themostbeautifulisraw4561]

Can you do Sister Sister w Diahann Carroll and Irene Cara?

[@StruggleReviewzTV]

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