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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (2009)

Name: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Genre: Music
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 2 hr 38 min
Rating: 100
Cast: Eric Owens, Laquita Mitchell, Lester Lynch, Chauncey Packer, Karen Slack

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

Audience Score

100

NR 2 hr 38 minApr 19th, 2009Music

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.

StarringEric OwensLaquita MitchellLester Lynch

DirectorFrancesca Zambello

WriterDuBose Heyward

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