Film
Porgy and Bess
1959Directed by Otto Preminger
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- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
About Porgy and Bess
- Music
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
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
