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Genres
Drama Romance
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Phoenix Pictures

Porgy and Bess

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Robert Michael Geisler, Mike Medavoy, Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler

Director: Dee Rees

Screenplay: Dee Rees

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