<P> Dreamgirls is a 2006 American romantic musical comedy - drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures . Adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name by composer Henry Krieger and lyricist / librettist Tom Eyen , Dreamgirls is a film à clef , a work of fiction taking strong inspiration from the history of the Motown record label and one of its acts , The Supremes . The story follows the history and evolution of American R&B music during the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of a Detroit , Michigan girl group known as the Dreams and their manipulative record executive . </P>
<P> Dreamgirls is a 2006 American romantic musical comedy - drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures . Adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name by composer Henry Krieger and lyricist / librettist Tom Eyen , Dreamgirls is a film à clef , a work of fiction taking strong inspiration from the history of the Motown record label and one of its acts , The Supremes . The story follows the history and evolution of American R&B music during the 1960s and 1970s through the eyes of a Detroit , Michigan girl group known as the Dreams and their manipulative record executive . </P>
who are the characters of dreamgirls based on
who are the characters of dreamgirls based on
The Supremes
The Supremes