Mahogany (1975) on Netflix
Tracy Chambers assists the head buyer at a Chicago department store and studies fashion design at night. She argues with Brian Walker, a neighborhood activist. A photographer invites her to Rome.
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Plot summary
Tracy Chambers works as the head buyer's assistant at a Chicago department store and wants to become a fashion designer. She attends night classes, which her supervisor, Miss Evans, fears will take time from her store duties. Tracy's aunt supports her and shows her designs to buyers, who find them better suited to Paris than Chicago. After Tracy quarrels with Brian Walker, an activist against gentrification in her neighborhood, a photographer named Sean McAvoy visits the store, mistakes her for a model, and photographs her. He asks her to come to Rome.
Cast
- Lenard Norrisas Wil
- Obeloas Campaign Worker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mahogany (1975)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Motown founder Berry Gordy took over direction of the film himself after British filmmaker Tony Richardson was dismissed from the production.
- Jay Cocks of Time panned the direction, the plot and Ross' acting, wrote that “movies as frantically bad as Mahogany can be enjoyed on at least one level: the spectacle of a lot of people making fools of themselves”, and said the wardrobe Ross designed herself looked “apparently inspired by some Oriental version of Star Trek”.
- The soundtrack included the single “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)”, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976.
- The luxury department store in the film was modeled after, and actually filmed at, the real Marshall Fields store on State Street in Chicago.
