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Aug 22, 2022 · 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.
- 118 min
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- tygerbug
Porgy and Bess: Directed by Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian. With Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey. A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
- 1959-10-14
Dec 31, 2014 · The 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Released to theaters for only a short window and only airing on national network TV once, the film is known as one of the most prestigious and expensive lost films of all time.
- 126 min
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
- 132.3K
- Dan Fleury
A Musical of many of our young Blacks stars back in the days ...more.
- 115 min
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- luby best
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.
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In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder.