Purlie
- Drama
- Music
10/12/1981
142
Storyline
Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
- Director:
Cast
Robert GuillaumePurlie
Melba MooreLutiebelle- Sherman HemsleyGitlow
- Linda HopkinsSister Hopkins
- Rhetta HughesMissy
- Brandon MaggartOl' Cap'n
- Don ScardinoCharlie
- Clarice TaylorIdella
- Loretta AbbottEnsemble
- Brenda BraxtonEnsemble
- P.L. BrownEnsemble
- Olivia DetanteEnsemble
- Suzzanne DouglasEnsemble
- Cisco DraytonEnsemble
- Tanya GibsonEnsemble
- Michael GoringEnsemble