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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

2009 2h 38m · Music · ★ 10.0

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

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

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.

Director Francesca Zambello

Writer DuBose Heyward

Top Billed Cast

Eric Owens

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Laquita Mitchell

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Lester Lynch

Crown

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Porgy and Bess 2008-09 [Teaser PBS]

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