Does anyone know the real “dreamgirls” story with the Supremes?
No Effies character most resembles Flo Ballard from the Supremes. Jamie foxes character resembles Berry Gordy who was the founder of Motown. http://music.yahoo.com/library/default.asp?i=265455&m=bio&add=& The Supremes were not an overnight success story, although it might have seemed that way when they began topping the charts with sure-fire regularity. The trio that would become famous as the Supremes — Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard — met in the late ’50s in Detroit’s Brewster housing project. Originally known as the Primettes, they were a quartet (Barbara Martin was the fourth member) when they made their first single for the Lupine label in 1960. By the time they debuted for Motown in 1961, they had been renamed the Supremes; Barbara Martin reduced them to a trio when she left after their first single. The Supremes’ first Motown recordings were much more girl group-oriented than their later hits. Additionally, not all of them featured Diana Ross on lead vocals; Flo
