Dreamgirls

R&B star Jimmy (Eddie Murphy) and manager Marty (Danny Glover) hear a pitch from Curtis (Jamie Foxx) who manages the backup-singing Dreamettes (Beyoncè Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Hudson), for a song composed by C.C. (Keith Robinson), cueing big narrative progress and a cameo by Dick Clark, in Dreamgirls , 2006.

We’ve just met Eddie Murphy as James “Thunder” Early, Danny Glover his manager, Jamie Foxx as Curtis who’s just made himself manager of the “Dreamettes” (Beyoncè Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Hudson), who meet with the star’s approval, song by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen, in Dreamgirls , 2006.

Curtis (Jamie Foxx) has earned stature for releasing a recording of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech, prompting Effie (Jennifer Hudson) to an elaborate joke regarding her own career, followed by another Academy Award-nominated song, by Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett, with Sharon Leal in her first scene, as a job applicant, in Dreamgirls, 2006.

From director Bill Condon’s lively opening scenes shot at the Orpheum Theater in LA, just-introduced “Dreamettes” Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncè (Knowles) and Anika Noni Rose (as Effie, Deena and Lorell) do their first song, by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen, ambitious Curtis (Jamie Foxx) in the wings, in Dreamgirls , 2006.