#whats love got to do with it
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Tina Turner and Angela Bassett as Tina Turner on the set of Whats Love Got To With It (1993). The movie’s title was Tina’s first and only number one pop hit in her career. It debuted on the chart in May 1984 and spent three weeks at number one. Tina had 17 chart entries in her solo career, 15 made the top 40, and six made the top 10. Two of her hits peaked at number two - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) and Typical Male.
Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner and Jenifer Lewis as Zelma Bullock, Tina Turner’s mother, in Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). Jenifer was born in Kinlock, Missouri, and has 131 acting credits from an uncredited bit in Red Heat (1988) to 143 episodes of Blackish.
Her other notable credits include Beaches, two episodes of Murphy Brown, Sister Act, five episodes of In Living Color, nine episodes of A A Different World, an episode of Friends, Dead Presidents, eight episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Girl 6, an episode of Cosby, The Preachers Wife, 36 episodes as a voice on The PJs, Antwone Fisher (uncredited), Shark Tale (as Motown Turtle), 131 episodes of Strong Medicine, Madea’s Family Reunion, and voices in Cars 2 and 3 and The Addams Family.
Whats Love Got To Do With It premiered Jun 6, 1993, It is an honorable mention to my best 1,001 movies
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner blocks out one of the three Ikettes in a late 60s tv performance with Laurence Fishburne as Ike on guitar from Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993), directed by Brian Gibson. Brian was born in London and had 21 director credits from a 1972 documentary on the telly, to 1998. His other notable credits include five Styx videos, Foreigner’s I Want To Know What Love Is video, and Poltergeist II: The Other Side.
Angela Bassett and Laurence FIshburne in their later, troubled years together in a scene from Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993), photographed by Jamie Anderson. Jamie has 32 cinematography credits from 1976 to a 2020 tv episode. His other notable credits include Piranha, Grosse Pointe Blank, an episode of ER, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bad Santa, and 34 episodes of Crossing Jordan.
Vanessa Bell Calloway, to the left of Angela Bassett, as Jackie, one of the many Ikettes over the years in the Ike and Tina Turner revue, in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993).
Vanessa was born in Cleveland and has 155 acting credits, from Tina Turner’s music video for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1984) to episodes of a mini-series now in production.
Her other notable credits include episodes of Falcon Crest and 227, Coming to America, episodes of Webster, China Beach, LA Law, A Different World (two episodes), a voice in Bebe’s Kids, Crimson Tide, episodes of Touched by an Angel, Moesha, The Parkers, and Dexter, Dragged Across Concrete, Harriet, Coming 2 America, 23 episodes of Shameless, and three episodes of This Is Us.
Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett as Ike and Tina Turner in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). Larry was born in Augusta, Georgia, and has 124 acting credits, from a 1972 tv movie to John Wick IV, for release in 2023.
His entries among my best 1,001 movies are Apocalypse Now , The Cotton Club, The Color Purple, and Higher Learning. His sother honorable mentions are Class Action and Boyz n the Hood. His other notable credits include episodes of MASH, Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice, Rumble Fish, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, School Daze, Red Heat, 18 episodes of Pee Wee’s Playhouse (as Cowboy Curtis), a voice in nine episodes of The Civil War documentary, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Othello (as Othello), The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Mission Impossible III, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, John Wick: Chapter Two, Ant Man and the Wasp, John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum, and All the Old Knives.
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). This is her second honorable mention, after Boyz n the Hood. Her entries among my best 1,001 movies are Sunshine State, The Score, and the voice of saxophone player Dorothea Williams, in Soul.
Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett as Ike and Tina Turner in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). Ike and Tina had 20 Billboard chart entries 1960-1975. Six made the top 40. Proud Mary was their only song to make the top 10, peaking at number four in 1971.
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner poses with The Ikettes in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). The Ikettes had three chart entries from 1962 to 1965. Peaches N Cream peaked at number 36 in 1965 and I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song) was the biggest hit,, peaking at number 19 in 1962. All their songs were written and produced by Ike Turner.
