The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, Lifetime Biopic 

goldburnm I agree! She’s Snoop Dogg’s 1st cousin too. What a small world.

She blew it out didn't she 🤣

@@MrObryantJ Thank you for that tidbit. Didn't know that.

I knew I knew I knew I recognized Aunjanue...... I'm a NCIS: LA fan......she played LL's agent wife......

She has been in many things...she is amazing!!

Probably no financial backing for that much. You only have so much budget.

Erika Eppinger yes exactly! Maybe a 4 part series of how they each green in ministry!

It could have been a 3 or 4 part miniseries. There's more than enough music and material.

Erika Eppinger four part or a whole movie in theaters!

Erika Eppinger it’s should have been a 3 night premiere! Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. Easter weekend! Cuz I needed just a bit more info on the sisters

RIGHT👀☕

Yes

I agree

They had 90 min. to tell all of there stories together, but didn't Denise have six hours, to tell her's and everything else she wanted to tell, when she went on Larry Reid Live?, And made it seem like, Twinkie was being basically kidnapped, and held for ransom, and she would make herself start crying, when she thought he was going into a certain subject, and then when she realized, oh shit he ain't talkin about that yet, she will magically bring herself right out of it and be talking normal as hell, and mad as hell, LoL😂😂😂Now that's what you call acting baby, but anywho, they(Twinkie, and Karen,everybody know her and Jackie don't have the best relationship or Dorinda,or Karen, but Karen is that type of person that she can sweet things underneath her, and still try to do with her mother will want her to do) did reach out to Denise, to she did not respond, so they sent her a letter, about being a part of it, through the courts,( I guess so they couldn't be suited🤷, if she was to say, that, they made her look this way, or that way, and it wasn't true, and, she had, no say so in the matter.) number 1, and she responded back, through the courts and she respectfully decline, little did she know, it wasn't no come together type of thing, they didn't want her to have to work with them, is she getting want to, that's not how you do a movie, none of them work together, what they were asking her if she would allow them to, what's did she want to work with the writer, on what are character should have been like, and what she was really like as a person,that's the way they all did it, it wasn't like all four of them. With the same writer at one time, no she met with each and every one of them separately, and this was done because of the people wanting it, this was not something that The Clark sisters set out, and decided that they wanted a movie about their lives, and not to say that they didn't want one, I'm saying that that's not how this came about, because they are public figures, and every since the play their story has been picking up a lot of drama, the network could have did the movie on its own without including any of them in it whatsoever, someone the network reached out to them,it made more sense to them to go ahead and work with lifetime, so that the story can be told truthfully, and that was amazing, I give them super big props for that,because they didn't want to work with the producers, and the riders so that certain things didn't come out, and that their mother looked a holier-than-thou, and they were the perfect little COGIC family, NO, they just said, if you're going to tell it, tell the truth, and that's exactly what they did. 🙌👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

There is an interview on yt with Larry Reed

Do you remember those concerts she would put on for the remembrance of MLK at Cobo Hall?

Carlos please give us details!!

Did she throw her shoe at you?

My mom and godmother did too!

@@sharneewmu Memories, right.. I appreciated how people like Matty Moss. Timothy Wright, Walter Hawkins and other legends were rough on us. They just didnt play. They pulled the best out of us. Nobody got hurt.

Star The Gemini Yup! I also remember her cameo in Notorious as well.

Star The Gemini definitely. She was amazing in When They See Us and was nominated for a Golden Globe

She was also in Quantico a FBI show that was on ABC. I love her. She is very underrated.

I said the same thing under video, she was also in if Beale street could talk. Very under rated actress.

She is totally underated!!! Like do NOBODY remember her in Ray!!

miller3696 that part took me out

🤣🤣🤣 Just wrong he pulled out the Whisper song🤣🤣🤣🤣

That part😂😂😂

That part had me D.O.A. in this bihhhh. ROTFLMBAO!!!!!

Biopics are never meant to depict every single thing that happened...that's never happened even with the new edition multi night series they have to cut out many life events they went through....I think people are just nosey and want to see everything in these people's closets and that was never gonna happen

Nielsen Makaba I’m a film student I know what and how a biopic should be done. They still did a terrible job imo.

You could’ve helped fund it then

@@TheAngiehubbard as a film student who wrote this comment 2 years ago where can we go view an actual film you’ve made ? Where is your student film at least film student ? I’m curious to see your work since you have so much critique

Snoop Dogg just did an IG post say their blood cousins not hollywood cousins

When she took her shoe off and threw it , I was crying! lol

Paula Michelle I agree with your statement. She’s been game for years and she played in the Exonerated 5 as one of the Moms.

from the very first scene she was BEASTLY in this role❣️❣️

Exactly! There’s a video on RU-vid where the Clark Sisters meet Ms. Ellis after wrapping on making the movie, and they all cried like their momma showed up to give them her blessing. The way they hugged her. It’s like they got to hug their mom one last time. Even one of the sisters seemed like she couldn’t let Ms. Ellis go it brought me to tears. She did THAT!

Yes i can't spell her name but Ms. Ellis did her thing!!

Right

Tiffany Sims Yes ma’am!!

yes hunni

yes ma'am

Chiiiiiilllllllleeeeeee the tea

Wow!

Vicky Wright oh wow! Never knew that

Vicky Wright Whoaaaa!! Wow!!

😳 J.O. Patterson?! Oh Jesus!

Akilah N. Sadly

Akilah N. The family was only going to let so much of their life go public.

It prob will be soon bc of all the attention

At least they changed the hairstyles....unlike the Towanda character in that Toni Braxton movie!

Akilah N. Not 35 the entire time tho! 😂

jhordani she played in “In Too Deep” as well

And Undercover Brother!! She played "Sista-Girl".

Thats a good list of the BEST and most underrated. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

I first fell in love w her acting as "Sandy" the pregnant crack head in Notorious BIG

jhordani yes very underrated but that’s when we can say their talent speaks for itself which you’ve listed! And she gets/does EXEMPLARY in these roles she does!!!

I totally agree she loved her girls

Caroline Mcleod Mrs Evelyn Braxton too

Mattie Moss tried to live viscerally through her daughters that is why she pushed them so hard

janellmd I was trying to figure out who she look like. She definitely has Jill mannerisms

Thank you. I was going cray cray trying to figure out who she resembles... Jilly from Philly all the way!!!

Yeah

AD NYC i know, i was typing to fast and obviously not paying attention. thank you

Shamicka White I sooo concur. What an “A-list” actress.

Shamicka White wasn’t she in the Help, she was the maid that took that ring that that’s white lady planted

L'Homme DeMond yes

You ain’t never lied....... she deserves a damn OSCAR!

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I hollered 🤣😭😭

Girl I cried from Twinkie leaving til the end

I was surprised that Denise ended up going back to school and getting her PhD

Yes Twinkie through away so much for her mother and that’s why she ran off with the first man because she ddnt get a chance to experience any interaction aside from her mother..

That’s what I was thinking the whole time!!

Even the daddy with his no-good self told the mama that what she was doing to Twinkie wasn’t right. And he was right about that.

Corey Scott wait they had a brother. the movie should’ve definitely included that

Amari Dior yes he’s the oldest Leo Cullum, if you watch Mattie Moss real funeral he goes on after Denise... let’s everyone know he is the first

@@amariad3378 Leo Cullum is a very quiet person but he's close to his sisters. He lives in California.

Amari Dior They wanted it centered around the sisters musical career. Just like the Braxtons, you tend to forget about Mikey but he wasn’t a part of the sister group.

@@WorthyView They Couldn't At Least Gave Him A Shout Out. Somewhere In The Movie. Let Us Know At Least He Exist. Did He Live Wit His Dad, Cuz I Had Not A Clue Of A Male Sibling?????

Personally I see nothing wrong with having multiple children. Especially when they have the same dad.

I mean she was the best one for the role especially that funeral part she was there, but they should've casted somebody else for after the surgery👀

Yes, but they didn't have the same budget as New Edition and no one thought the movie would blow up as it did.

misstoi I realize this now.

@@misstoi Really? Queen Latifah, Mary J Blige, & Missy Elliot are executive producers and no budget????

YES. And I would have watched all parts.

Maybe this is the reason that certain episodes ( 1,2 and 5) of the Unsung documentary about them have been deleted off here. What is in those episodes or conflicting in there that we should not see? Just curious....

YESSA

8 parts lol....it definetly should not have been 90 minutes.

J MARTIN yes GAWD!!!!! That funeral should have been it very own episode cuz I know. Some real shit went down!!!!!!

8 parts tho? Maybe 6. Lol

J MARTIN yesssss

Reading WonderBoy yess!!!!

Nea J these type of guys still exist🤦🏽‍♀️ they’ll take your money and ruin your credit 🙄 speaking from experience 😭

Just Symplynique your so right, sadly, I feel she must have known as well, but prayed he really loved her, not......,.😢

Dang i didn’t know that. Poor Twinkie that’s so sad. I caught that I was so hurt for her.

Agreed

Her mama really was right about him he didnt have shit lined up down that road. He only moved her so far away because he thought she had money

At SunniBunniHunniDip 😂😂

She lowkey is amazing!

THETHICKONE06 I’ve always been a fan! She’s so UNDERRATED!

THETHICKONE06 She’s high key amazing. Can’t name not one character that she has not played superbly. Just because she’s not getting Hollyweird recognition, don’t mean she ain’t an A-list actress.

TALK that 💩 Chris😅😅😅 facts 100 whatever y'all young folks say

i agree

but that fool said they're better than the Jackson's oh no mam I MEANT THE ACTRESS

@@sarahb6163 They are better singers than the Jacksons

Agree & had the look

Yes that’s true the first older two by her first husband and Denise Twinkie Dorinda and Karen belong to Elbert Clark!!!!

She also did Broadway just underrated!

& the birth of a nation with Nat Parker

ThickGirl 40 YEEEESSSS with the “Real Life Clark Sisters Vocals” 😂😂😂

@@perfectly_imperfect7972 Yes God!!!!! Lol

MsKISS6 I didn’t know they had a brother

@@ebonykemp Yeah Leo is the oldest born then Jackie and then Denise...etc

And the son was nowhere to be found

Facts 💯

Okay, she may have even repressed that memory_so you two are still together. To have peace for yourself, forgive in your mind and move forward. \ as a g'ma now I grew up Baptist with my grandma Methodist, so not strict like that. Forgiveness brings peace. I enjoyed the biopic, didn't know many facts. 🎤🎼💜

Amen Chile mama needed to see that moment

Yeah bc she knew what you said was the truth

Mariam Tajudeen yes that was nasty

They can’t just pull back from the table.

@@elekmoss 😂🤣 Stop it. lts not that simple when you are genetically big. Some ppl can n some cannot lose it.

@@mssan2016 and in black Christian southern families thats how we eat.

Ele Moss 😂😂😂😂throw your phone all the way away

@@kenyettaready Right. Just by the portrayal of the dining room n kitchen in the movie tole me they were throwing down!

MZNETTYGURL riiigggghhhttt they have had series for other biopics, why not this one

tamcar04 Girl, you ain’t never lied!!!! I grew up COGIC and the decision to stop going as an adult was the best decision I ever made!!!!

I'm 47 and I still haven't recovered from growing up under the COGIC or our church denomination was called APOSTOLIC hell both are CULTS...I was molested, raped,emotionally, mentally, spiritually abused. I was the Denise in my family not that I got pregnant but I wanted to go to college and become a NURSE...whew child I was every thing but a child of God which I guess made the abuse I suffered ok to them. At that time every one watched " GENERAL HOSPITAL " and they thought that was what working as a nurse was just every one sleeping with each other...my parents finally woke up and realized what was going on. It didn't help me but it helped my siblings younger than me. I'm a nurse practitioner now and doing quite well but as for Church naw I haven't been able to do it. If this is ok with the GOD they serve then I'm better without that. It's crazy because both of my parents were then and still are ministers....well maybe one day I will see the big light and my heart will heal.

alicia72cb I’m proud of you for continuing despite your upbringing

@@gmalone7639 thank you..

I like how you put that "courage to recover from your childhood" that is true regardless if you were raised in the church or not. Well for most of us.

Yes!

@Kay You sometimes I have confused her with Amber Riley from Glee. Both of them are great actresses

Raven was a child actress in a few critically acclaimed indie films.

@@misstoi I did not know that. She was in a series that was on ABC Family 10 years ago along with David Hasselhoff's daughter. It was good. I really enjoyed it.

She was on all of us

Actually Denise said she was only an LPN and that she couldn't pass the test down in the NYC but carry on.

Keshea Lillard A LPN is still a nurse

Keshea Lillard LPN (Licensed Practical NURSE)

Hell yeah that lady said if this dont work out...I got something to fall back on

Reyna C LPN/LVN or RN do not have the ability to write prescriptions only fill them a NP is the only nurse that can. Please don’t argue because I’m a nurse.

Several!!!!!!!!

And its evident of that today...

Ricci 34821 😂😂😂

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Exactly😃

Right I was like he really doesn’t know who she is ?! She’s the Truth !!

Jessica Carlisle girl he tickled me so bad!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

This took my out 🤣🤣

I just hollered so loud!! I wasn't expecting that!!😂😂😂

Yes, I was not ready!!!

💀💀💀💀 me too! I laughed so hard !!

Asiah Walker 👏🏾👏🏾

I enjoyed it. I would have loved more than one part, because it was just that good 🤷🏽‍♀️. And the music was absolutely soul touching

What’s the Healing Story??

They weren't Clarks?

@@kaystar3434 Did u watch the movie?? They made it very clear.

Whats Denise’s healing story?

Yes yes yes!!!

I can relate to this!

Kml I hear ya

So you need a Lifetime movie

I'm glad it wasn't just me. I had no interest. I have an aunt and cousins who belonged to one of those churches. I remember I only went ONCE at 16. I am now 40 and I still get chills thinking about how uncomfortable the entire experience was. So that, combined with the awful baptist church I spent most of my childhood in, was enough for me to pass on this film. The Clarks get a pass for their dysfunction because they sing gospel. If this was an R&B group the comments would be along the lines of what we see about the Jacksons, the DeBarges, the Sylvers, the Pointers, the Braxtons and a lot of the other secular family acts. I don't dispute their talent (especially Twinkie) but all I see when I look at them is an unspoken darkness. Their relationship with their sister Denise says a lot, in my opinion.

I see that unspoken darkness too. I thought I was the only one.

Genese Knox that’s definitely not the only thing we’re about. We can’t help that we look good and Serve The Lord!! 😂

@@arikaprice7537 Yaasss, sir william!

Genese Knox ....I grew up in a church like that and household like that...I’m an atheist now, and I raise my child to be non-religious, growing up it was like torture sometimes, being at the church several times a week, Sunday school, 2 services, choir practice, bible study, vacation Bible school...our life revolves around the church and the lord

@@moneishab4996 Wow! hth do you grow up like that to be an atheist ?

@@moneishab4996 Omg yes! I grew up in COGIC and it was horrible. You described it perfectly, it was church every day of the week, literally! Not to mention the conventions and 5th Sunday meetings. . .

Tiffany Williams yesss it was twenty years later

Thank God!

Shenice Says Thank God no matter how long it took!

It happens a lot especially in the African American Community because we believe that we should never disrespect our parents my Mother( it absolutely Hurts my 💖) & Grandmother has the same exact relationship and it is sickening... my mother is 63 and to this day she will never question her mother or call her out on her actions because she believes her days will be Cut Short

🖐 ...i got delivered though

Shaminka Cargile it’s funny how everybody is taught to remember the ‘honour thy mother and thy father’ part but never the ‘do not provoke your children to anger’ bit immediately after🙄🤦🏾‍♀️

Esther A when my grandmother throws that in our face, we remind her she’s provoking our anger.... people just pull what serves them from the Bible, no, it’s a whole book, you have to take the word in context

@@esthera4710 Ironic I Always thought this was a Guilt Trip That only Baptist People used. My Mother, Grandmother & Great Aunts were Good at This!!!

I was thinking the same thing. Like sisters are you still mad since 1986. Cause Denise should have ben represented better than that.

@@keepinitcool9102 Yes, and Twinkie too. In my opinion she was pictured as foolish and incapable of making good decisions for herself. She made the most sacrifice for the group. Without her writing and composing they may not have been as successful as they were. I was disappointed about that.

TOASTED ! Do you think that’s why Twinkie wasn’t on stage with them when they showed the REAL sisters at the very end??

@@misskris117 Baby. . .Twinkie was in the hospital then and they were already scheduled to be in Canada for the final scenes. She had her dress made, which she’s worn in later performances. She simply couldn’t come.

Denise had 5 sons out of wedlock and 2 from her last marriage, one who has recently passed away. Her husband tried to fight Karen husband, who is producing the movie, of course he wasn’t mentioned.

She got her rights back? That's awesome not many do.

Elbert adopted them. But Jacky was the only one to change her name to Clark from Cullum. Mr. Cullum was probably absent. I never heard Jacky talk about him.

Who is Leo?

Mo B they brother

@@theycallmedopeness I must have missed the part where they referenced him in the movie. Is he older than the girls?

No Jackie last name is Coloum-Chislom... Clark is her stage name. She has her dad last name 😉☺️... Denise did a 4 part interview and stated she is not technically a Clark

Josephine Bournes i want the full story about how these girls really felt about Toni leaving them and them leaving traci

I think they made one already...a few years back

rags2riches205 that was the Toni story. And the sisters already said it was one sided

Josephine Bournes facts, besides they did a movie on Toni Braxton. We good lol

The constant TV presence is enough. Evelyn is a lot of they issues

Jacqui TheGreat she crippled her so that she would always need her. So I think psychologically Twinkie was warped to choose people who would think for her and control her

@@ob2be1 Exactly!

Same here.

Yes I'm a mother of a 13 year old I have been reiterating that her whole life because I want her to know she can come to me for any and everything and I won't judge her and everything will be okay but I don't ever want her to think that we're friends that's how things happened when Mother's try to be friends with their daughter so you have to put your foot down and take a stance when it comes to that because they'll take advantage of you and we definitely want our girls to come to us especially with all that's going on in this world today

LOL me either. 😂😂😂

sassyintrovert 😱 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️. We do not all look alike, AT ALL, Quinton!!!🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

sassyintrovert yeah that missed me!

Right lol

I didn't see it either lol

They have an older brother (Lonnie) who went to live with his and Jacky’s father. Mattie Moss Clark had 6 children with two men (2 from her 1st marriage and 4 from the second marriage).

1908lana1 The program was planned by someone other than the sisters so maybe the *sisters* were showing things from their perspective...they may not have known ahead of time or were prepared emotionally for seeing her at the funeral and had to brace themselves for what she would say about their momma if they were estranged; I have seen that happen. However what she said and how she acted was factual according to original audio/pictures taken at the funeral so...I think it’s all based on perspective which every one has one and has a right to own theirs. Unfortunately Denise wasn’t given the opportunity to incorporate hers.

@@angeleyes3386 Half of my family went to that funeral. Aretha Franklin handled a lot of the arrangements so maybe the sisters didn't know or didn't want to talk. My family was taken aback by Denice saying, "At least one of her daughters should be strong enough..." That may have hit the other sisters a certain way too. Also, The clip on RU-vid is heavily edited, but she did start throwing shade at the bishop and Karen went up there to usher her off the stage. The part that was "wrong" was her introducing her sons. In real life that happened at the memorial service, not the funeral. The fight between Karen and Denice outside was actually much worse than they showed; and they had to be separated. All I know is that they all got to get it right!

Edward James Thanks for expounding!

@@angeleyes3386 right. I am from Detroit and those "super" funerals often are planned by the church or some else because of all the dignitaries, preachers, celebrities... Twinkie may have known but it's totally possible that the other 3 did not know Denise was on the agenda.

Hayley Madison, LLC yes!! My Aunties were always praising her fashions.

Hayley Madison, LLC I agree!! As a little girl I use to love how sharp those women could dress!!🥰💖👑

Vickie Winans can’t touch Dorinda Clark-Cole in the fashion department. Vickie Winans could NEVER!!!

Why did Dorinda almost committ suicide though?

Dorinda house almost got foreclosed on years ago

Natasha Askew Detroit 💗

And the clark sisters sung at hers

Alpha Charm I'm right there with you...... In all aspects

I just loving the reviews and talk on black church and family since I'm in therapy and lived that church life. Not watching the movie never been big on Clark Sisters. I do love Tramaine, Dottie Peoples, Mississippi Mass, Luther Barnes, that type. I grew up Southern Baptist.

@@Dheal88 Yeah, if you were never a fan. But the rest of us who are fans.....

@@Dheal88 Hmm ..... you know you actually make a good point. I didn't think of it that way.

Remember her in In Too Deep

When I first saw the carlina white movie I feel in love with her thenI started looking up she suppose to been won a Oscar

I see what you did there!! I love a good singing voice. I wish I could. I would NOT shut up! Lol lol

Exactly!

Exactly!! It wasn’t any back talk then.

Nicole luv Dr. Mattie is originally from Alabama so you’re right. In the south if they can’t reach you, they throw something at you! 😂

When my dad was in school the teachers had permission from the parents to hit them if they started acting up in class. Lol. Sounds crazy but that’s how things were back then

I can totally agree. My grandma was a pastor.

JDub 44 sold it for crumbs

She got her catalog back though

celeste8271 yes should have them split into 3-4 nights. Lifetime didn’t do them justice

celeste8271 yes, like wtf Dorinda was trynna jump off of a bridge.... nobody knows 🤷🏽‍♀️

That part!!! And this litter of puppies 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

Vukani Mchunu me too! I clicked on the video so dam fast !lol

What happened to the son

Jovial Phoenix Not Elbernita Jesus.😂

Mrs. Tammy Baby 🤣🤣

Mrs. Tammy Baby Yesss I hollered 🤦🏾‍♀️😂😂