Made in America (1993 film) Made in America (1993 film) Made in America is a 1993 American comedy film released on May 28, 1993 by Warner Bros. starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and featuring Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly and Will Smith. The film was directed by Richard Benjamin. It was shot in various locations in Oakland, California and at Oakland Technical High School. A notable song on the soundtrack is "Colors of Love," written by Carole Bayer Sager, James Ingram and Bruce Roberts, and produced by David Foster, which alludes to the story line. Zora Matthews, whose mother Sarah conceived her with the aid
Whoopi Goldberg January 1990, Goldberg starred with Jean Stapleton in the situation comedy "Bagdad Cafe". The sitcom ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, Goldberg starred in "The Long Walk Home", portraying a woman in the civil rights movement. She played a psychic in the film "Ghost" (1990) and became the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years, and the second black woman to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel, for "Gone with the Wind" in 1940). "Premiere" named her character Oda Mae Brown in its list of