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Porgy and Bess

1959138 min 6.3 TMDBIMDb ↗Released

“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”

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.

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Release / first air1959-06-24

Original languageEN

GenresMusic, Drama, Romance

DirectorOtto Preminger

WriterDorothy Heyward

Budget$7,000,000

Revenue$3,500,000

ProductionSamuel Goldwyn Productions