Ahead of the 2025 Oscars, PEOPLE is looking back on moments from Academy Awards history. Jennifer Hudson, who won the Academy ...
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I was experiencing it as I went along.” In the film adaptation of the 1982 Broadway musical, Hudson played Effie White, one of three young Black women in a 1960s girl group. Effie is initially ...