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Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles.
A film adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Gershwin opera, starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. The film features the classic songs "Summertime", "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "I Loves You Porgy".
- (1.9K)
- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
- 1959-10-14
Feb 28, 2020 · Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the title characters: crippled...
- 115 min
- 133.6K
- Dan Fleury
A musical adaptation of the play Porgy by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. as the main characters. The film follows the love story of Porgy and Bess, two black residents of a South Carolina fishing village, amidst the challenges of poverty and racism.
- Otto Preminger, Paul Helmick
- Sidney Poitier
Aug 22, 2022 · A film adaptation of the opera by George Gershwin, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge as the main characters. The film is controversial, rare and unavailable on home video, and was chosen for the National Film Registry.
The sultry Bess (Dorothy Dandridge) becomes the object of desire of Porgy (Sidney Poitier), a disabled man who gets around in a cart. But Bess is also involved with thuggish Crown (Brock Peters...
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
