Porgy and Bess
1959 ‧ Musical/Romance ‧ 2h 18m
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7/10 · IMDb
78% · Rotten Tomatoes
This musical drama focuses on the poverty-stricken residents struggling to survive in the Charleston tenement of Catfish Row. The sultry Bess (Dorothy Dandridge) becomes the object of desire of Porgy (Sidney Poitier), a disabled man who gets...
Initial release: June 24, 1959
Director: Otto Preminger
Music composed by: Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, and André Previn
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Adapted from: Porgy and Bess
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