Porgy and Bess
"Introducing a new era in motion pictures!"
1959-06-24
6.1
en 138mMusicDramaRomance
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
Theatre Play
Dorothy Heyward
Theatre Play
DuBose Heyward
Screenplay
N. Richard Nash
Producer
Samuel Goldwyn
Original Music Composer
Ken Darby
fisherman musical south carolina based on opera charleston 1900s
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$3,500,000Budget
$7,000,000Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Columbia Pictures
