The 1976 film Sparkle wasn’t a huge hit, but it has a devoted cult following, and its soundtrack features some of Aretha Franklin’s finest performances. Express Newspapers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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The 1976 movie Sparkle follows the troubles and triumphs of a trio of singers — based loosely on The Supremes — trying to make it in the soul-music world of the 1960s. Sparkle was the film debut of Irene Cara, who’d become
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