Porgy and Bess (1959)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Otto Preminger
Genres : Music, Drama, Romance
Status : Released
Released : Jun 24, 1959
Tagline : The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
Length : 138 minutes
Cast
Crew
- Director of Photography : Leon Shamroy
- Editor : Daniel Mandell
- Theatre Play : Dorothy Heyward
- Producer : Samuel Goldwyn
- Original Music Composer : Ken Darby
- Production Design : Oliver Smith
- Costume Design : Irene Sharaff
- Set Decoration : Howard Bristol
- Director : Otto Preminger
- Theatre Play : DuBose Heyward
- Sound Designer : Fred Lau
- Screenplay : N. Richard Nash
- Makeup Artist : Frank McCoy
- Art Direction : Serge Krizman
- Assistant Director : Paul Helmick
- Art Direction : Joseph C. Wright
- Makeup Artist : Layne Britton
- Choreographer : Hermes Pan
- Songs : George Gershwin
- Lyricist : Ira Gershwin
- Original Music Composer : George Gershwin
- Sound Recordist : Fred Lau
- Book : Ira Gershwin
- Book : DuBose Heyward