Dreamgirls Trivia Questions

Answer: Keith Robinson

C.C. White writes all of the songs for the Dreamettes (later known as the Dreams) and also choreographs their moves.

Answer: Curtis Taylor Jr.

Effie (played by Jennifer Hudson) and Curtis shared an attraction from very early on in their professional relationship. Many comments were exchanged about how Curtis preferred real women, with a little meat on their bones, because he had been raised by his sisters who were both of a similar build.
Jennifer Hudson gained twenty pounds to play the role.

Answer: at James Early's wake

Effie remained very bitter about her brother's role in her being ousted from the group and refused to read the notes that he sent her or spend the money that he enclosed. After Curtis' callous treatment of Early resulted in his death by overdose, C.C. finally got fed up with Curtis' controlling ways and quit.
Effie came home one day to find her brother in her apartment (with their father), but she refused to talk to him and ran away. Later, at Early's wake, he approached her and they were able to start to rebuild a relationship.

Answer: Magic

Curtis, the father of Magic, finally finds out he has a daughter at the end of the movie. Curtis sees Magic in the audience and apparently, puts two and two together, since no one directly tells him that she is his daughter.

Answer: Rainbow Records

Curtis' success as a manager and promoter grew until he had his very own recording label, very much like Barry Gordy Jr. had the Motown Records label. All of the acts that Curtis managed recorded on his label.

Answer: None of these

The first time this song was sung it was sung by Jamie Foxx, but in the reprise, Jamie and Beyonce sang it together. The title was 'When I First Saw You'. It was harmonized at a photo shoot and in Deena and Curtis's house. Curtis was trying to persuade Deena that everything would be much better if she just did what he told her to do, although he didn't admit that he was tricking her into that. Deena responded with the song, 'Listen.'

When Curtis sang this part, he meant that he'd had a better life than everyone else when he was with Deena.

Answer: C.C.

Working together again, C.C. and Effie came up with a song that was sure to put Effie back on top. However Curtis took the song, had the Dreams record it and paid money to have Effie's version squashed. The Dreams ended up with the big hit that Effie should have had.

The song was really written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen.

Answer: One Night Only

Curtis discovers Effie has recorded a successful song and takes it so that the Dreams can make their own disco version of "One Night Only".

Answer: The Dreams

Curtis booked James Early and the Dreamettes into a very prestigious club in Miami, as the first black act ever to perform there. Early's blatant sexuality offended some of the patrons and the club owner was obviously displeased with this. Curtis made the decision to send Early off to his previous type of bookings and to focus on the girls. He told the girls that they would be The Dreams, because they were all grown up and Dreamettes was a name for little girls.

Answer: Family

This was sung by Jennifer Hudson, Keith Robinson, Jamie Foxx, Anika Noni Rose, and Beyonce Knowles after Effie was told that Deena would be singing lead instead of her. The song was performed on a stage and in a dressing room. Effie was concered about what would happen to the group if something was changed. Also, I suppose Effie was thinking about leaving the group but she stayed. She snapped later, but she was pregnant.

You can tell this lyric means that Effie was not leaving and she was getting some fun and fame to go along with that.

Answer: Deena

Already disillusioned with her controlling husband, Deena was devastated to find what he had yet again done to Effie. She found his records of payoffs to disc jockeys, and although we didn't see whom she actually gave these to, they ended up in Effie's lawyer's hands. When leaving her husband, Deena admitted to having done this.

Answer: Bill Condon

Bill Condon also directed the movie. Condon also wrote "Chicago" in 2002 and directed "Kinsey" in 2004.

Answer: Effie

Although Effie definitely had the strongest voice, Curtis was very much into image and decided to push Deena (played by Beyonce Knowles) as the lead singer, because she was the most beautiful one of the three.
"Dreamgirls" was loosely based on the story of The Supremes. Some of the wigs and costumes chosen at this point in the storyline left little room for doubt about who Deena was being styled after!