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Porgy and Bess

62 %|Jun 24, 1959|Music, Drama, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Otto Preminger
Director
Dorothy Heyward
Theatre Play
DuBose Heyward
Theatre Play
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Daniel Mandell
Editor