The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess poster

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess poster

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin

2009 2h 38m 10Movie

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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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Francesca Zambello

Director

DuBose Heyward

Writer, Novel