Porgy and Bess (1959)

ALL 06/24/1959 (en) Music, Drama, Romance 138 Min
  • Release
    06/24/1959
  • Production
    Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    61.46%
  • Original title
    Porgy and Bess
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 3,500,000.00
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Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

Overview

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.

  1. Otto Preminger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Samuel Goldwyn

    Producer



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Porgy and Bess (1959) 138 Min

ALL 06/24/1959 (en)
Music, Drama, Romance
  • Release 06/24/1959
  • Production
    Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
  • Original title Porgy and Bess
  • en
  • Revenue3,500,000.00

Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

Overview

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.

  1. Otto Preminger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Daniel Mandell

    Editor

  4. Samuel Goldwyn

    Producer