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    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

    "Introducing a new era in motion pictures!"

    1959

    2:18:52

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    Porgy and Bess

    Genre

    Music
    Drama
    Romance

    Plot

    In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

    Director

    Otto Preminger

    Writers

    Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash, Ira Gershwin, Ira Gershwin,

    Stars

    Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters,