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Movie Summary — Infoplease.com

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Rating:	No Rating
Genre:	Musical, Romance, Drama
Release Date:	June 24, 1959
Running time:	138 minutes
Cast:	Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters
Director:	Otto Preminger
Producer:	Samuel Goldwyn
Writer:	Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash
Distributor:	Columbia Pictures

Description: This adaptation of the famous play/opera concerns life in a black neighborhood known as "Catfish Row" in Charleston, SC.

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