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Brendan Burns


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Filmography

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Monkeybone (2001)
The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Livers Ain't Cheap (1995)
Blown Away (1994)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Maeve (1982)

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Sparkle (1976) - She's Bustin' At The Seams
Sparkle (1976) - Jump (Curtis Mayfield Composition)

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Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Monkeybone (2001)
The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Livers Ain't Cheap (1995)
Blown Away (1994)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Maeve (1982)
A Long Way Home (1981)
Driver
Raise the Titanic (1980)
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Nickel Ride (1975)
Larry

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Sparkle (1976) - She's Bustin' At The Seams Neat two opening scenes, introducing Phillip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood on the front steps, with Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith as “Sister,” Sparkle and Delores, Mary Alice their mom, Beatrice Winde the neighbor, Sam O’Steen directing, in the cult hit (re-made by Whitney Houston in 2012), Sparkle, 1976.
Sparkle (1976) - Jump (Curtis Mayfield Composition) The first musical number, an original from Curtis Mayfield, not to be confused with the Pointer Sisters’ 1984 hit, the fictional Williams sisters (Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith), with Philip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood, all doing their own vocals, performing at a Harlem amateur show, in Sparkle, 1976.

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