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Porgy and Bess (1959) is a English movie. Otto Preminger,Rouben Mamoulian has directed this movie. Sidney Poitier,Dorothy Dandridge,Sammy Davis Jr.,Pearl Bailey are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1959. Porgy and Bess (1959) is considered one of the best Drama,Musical,Romance movie in India and around the world.

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown.