Porgy and Bess > Film
Show Details
- Show
- Porgy and Bess (110)
- Music
- George Gershwin (857)
- Lyrics
- Ira Gershwin (709), DuBose Heyward (106)
- Book
- DuBose Heyward (106)
Recording Details
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- Video / Film Cast
- Language
- English
- Location
- US / CA
- Group/Studio
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Book
- N. Richard Nash (6) — Screenplay
- Director
- Otto Preminger (7)
- Choreography
- Hermes Pan (45)
- Conductor
- André Previn (146)
- Orchestrations
- Alexander Courage (46), Robert Franklyn (31), Conrad Salinger (106), Albert Woodbury (12)
- Performer
- Adele Addison (2) — dubs Dorothy Dandridge, Ruth Attaway (2) — Serena, Pearl Bailey (94) — Maria, Diahann Carroll (34) — Clara, Scatman Crothers (17) — Crab Man, Dorothy Dandridge (10) — Bess, Sammy Davis Jr. (129) — Sportin' Life, Earl Jackson (2) — MIngo, Inez Matthews (6) — dubs Ruth Attaway, Robert McFerrin (2) — dubs Sidney Poitier, Clarence Muse (7) — Peter, Loulie Jean Norman (15) — dubs Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters (14) — Crown, Sidney Poitier (3) — Porgy, Leslie Scott (4) — Jake, Helen Thigpen (5) — Strawberry Woman
- Notes
- Withdrawn after a 1967 television broadcast, though an abridged bootleg version exists and was briefly sold in Germany on DVD (see Wikipedia link below).
- Shortcode
- [r28199]
Releases
- Format
- Video File
- Audio
- Stereo
- Length
- 1:58:07
- Lists
- 15 collectors / 0 wish lists
- History
- 1 Revisions
- Shortcode
- [rl45079]
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