Porgy and Bess Backdrop

Porgy and Bess

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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Box Office

Budget: $7,000,000
Revenue: $3,500,000
ROI: -50.0%

Verdict: Flop

Trailer

Crew

Directors

> Otto Preminger (Director)
> Leon Shamroy (Director of Photography)
> Paul Helmick (Assistant Director)

Writers

> Dorothy Heyward (Theatre Play)
> DuBose Heyward (Theatre Play)
> N. Richard Nash (Screenplay)
> Ira Gershwin (Lyricist)
> Ira Gershwin (Book)
> DuBose Heyward (Book)