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    Porgy and Bess (1958)

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    Producer Samuel Goldwyn, one of the men who shaped Hollywood, bowed out at the age of 75 with this film version of the George and Ira Gershwin-Dubose Heyward folk opera about crippled Porgy (Sidney Poitier), his girl Bess (Dorothy Dandridge) and the inhabitants of Catfish Row.

    The familiar music, given Oscar-winning treatment by André Previn and Ken Darby, is gloriously intact. However, despite a starry cast of principals (Poitier, Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Pearl Bailey), the result disappoints.

    Otto Preminger’s direction is heavy-handed, the singing not as good as it should be, and the whole production too lavish to convince as a poignant tale of slum life.

    Porgy
    Sidney Poitier
    Bess
    Dorothy Dandridge
    Sportin’ Life
    Sammy Davis Jr
    Maria
    Pearl Bailey
    Crown
    Brock Peters
    Jake
    Leslie Scott
    Clara
    Diahann Carroll
    Serena
    Ruth Attaway

    Director
    Otto Preminger

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