Originally Posted by
jim aka jtigre99
Dreamgirls used the storyline that Effie and Curtis were a thing before he chose Deena. As for real life, thankfully Berry was not also involved with Flo and Mary.
Diana and Mary both wrote that Flo was unpredictable. Mary may have wrote about some difficulties with working alongside Diana, too, but she always spoke of how hard Diana worked. Diana also wrote that Mary was a hard worker. Diana would know if Mary was a slouch or she would have left that phrase out.
Diana was amazing and unique and a hard worker but Gordy did only have her as a one track mind, not only did Flo and Mary not enter into the picture but that one track caused other female artists to be put on the backburner. Funny, male artists that were different could flourish-Smokey, Marvin, the Jackson 5, the Temptations, the Four Tops, et al. I guess misogyny and his one track Diana mind couldn't help the other females.
I still say Motown could have worked with Mary so that she could have been their balladeer. She had the voice, looks and desire. Releasing Red Hot and dropping her wasn't all just to get her to drop a lawsuit. They could have done more. I know she wasn't the all-consuming drive of Diana but she was still pushing it all the way up until she passed. It just seemed to be more to the story-like was it a personality thing? Did they not approve of her lifestyle? Was she a diva and problematic? I guess we can only speculate. Some write here that she just didn't have the talent to make it [[mainly because she wasn't Diana Ross) and others feel she was divine. The truth lays somewhere in between but I don't see a resolution on this page.
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