Meanwhile, Rainbow Records has moved to Los Angeles, where the Dreams (now 'Deena Jones & the Dreams') have become superstars. One day, Marty appeals to Effie to let him help her rebuild her career and compels her to use her struggles as motivation in her music. Seven years later in 1973, Effie has become an impoverished welfare mother, living in inner-city Detroit with her daughter, Magic and struggling to return to music. and the Dreams leave her behind and forge ahead to stardom. Despite Effie's defiance at being ousted, and her last-ditch appeal to Curtis, he, C.C. Curtis eventually drops Effie (who has just learned she is pregnant with Curtis' child) from the group, hiring his secretary girlfriend, Jackie Morris (Dianna Agron) to take her place which Effie finds out before anyone can tell her. However, Effie begins acting out, particularly when Curtis' affections also turn towards Deena. transform the Dreams into a top selling mainstream pop act by 1965. When Jimmy bombs in front of a mostly white Miami Beach audience, Curtis sends Jimmy out on the road alone, keeping the Dreamettes behind to headline in his place.ДЇeeling that Effie's large figure and distinctive voice will not attract white audiences, Curtis appoints the slimmer and higher-voiced Deena lead singer and renames the group 'The Dreams.' With the aid of new songs and a new more glamorous image, Curtis and C.C. Jimmy's manager Marty grows weary of Curtis' plans to make his client more pop-friendly and walks out. Offstage, Effie becomes infatuated with the slick-talking Curtis while the married Jimmy begins an affair with Lorrell. and their producer Wayne (Hinton Battle) turn to payola to make Jimmy and the Dreamettes pop stars. When their first single fails after a white pop group releases a cover version, Curtis, C.C. Д¬urtis presents himself as the Dreamettes' new manager and arranges for the Dreamettes to become backup singers for local R&B star Jimmy 'Thunder' Early (Eddie Murphy).ДЄiming to achieve success for black singers with mainstream white audiences, Curtis starts his own record label, Rainbow Records, out of his Detroit car dealership, and appoints Effie's brother C.C. (Jamie Foxx) meets a girl group known as 'The Dreamettes': lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) and back-up singers Deena Jones (Beyonce) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose). Spoiler warning: The following contains plot details aboutД«ackstage at an amateur talent show at the Detroit Theatre in 1962, Cadillac salesman Curtis Taylor, Jr.

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