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	Porgy and Bess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porgy and Bess is an opera with music by George Gershwin and libretto by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward.
		Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a crippled fl man living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina, and his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her pimp, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer.
		Porgy refuses to identify the body, and is arrested for contempt of court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porgy_and_Bess (5069 words)

	Porgy and Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Porgy and Bess is an opera with music by George Gershwin based on the novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward.
		Porgy and Bess 1935 opera by George Gershwin Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward
		Porgy and Bess 1959 musical film directed by Otto Preminger starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the title roles.
	www.freeglossary.com /Porgy_and_Bess (237 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Dorothy Dandridge
		Film historian Donald Bogle's impeccable "Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography" appears in bookstores after years of interviews with the renowned African American actress' friends, associates and directors.
		When Dandridge heard that temperamental film director Otto Preminger was casting the all-fl remake of Bizet's opera, "Carmen Jones," she went all out to capture the female lead.
		Many critics believe Dandridge hit her peak with her work as Bess in Goldwyn's 1959 film, "Porgy and Bess," in which she starred opposite Sidney Portier as the crippled Porgy.
	www.bookpage.com /9710bp/nonfiction/dorothydandridge.html (358 words)

	Porgy and Bess Forever: The Gershwin masterpiece Porgy and Bess will be telecast Live from Lincoln Center on March 20, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Porgy and Bess Forever: The Gershwin masterpiece Porgy and Bess will be telecast Live from Lincoln Center on March 20, 2002.
		Though Samuel Goldwyn's 1959 film adaptation of the opera has much to recommend it, the fact that the singing voices of stars Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge had to be dubbed by Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison proved off-putting to audiences.
		Porgy and Bess had its world premiere on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1935, but George Gershwin's original intention was that it would debut at the Metropolitan Opera.
	1067litefm.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1799). (686 words)

	village voice > film > by Emily O'Neill
		The 1959 film version of George Gershwin's 1935 opera, Porgy and Bess, was born into turmoil.
		Directed by Otto Preminger, and released by Samuel Goldwyn as the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum, the film was widely panned for its Uncle Tomish vernacular and stereotypical presentation of fl life.
		Duke Ellington criticized the film's score, saying "it was not the music of Catfish Row," the poor African American community where the film was set, "or any other kind of Negroes." The film played in theaters for just over a month.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/9845,oneill,1065,20.html (182 words)

	Porgy and Bess (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I first saw the opening of Otto Preminger's "Porgy and Bess" on TV, probably some time in the early 80s, and my younger self found it a bit slow, despite the timeless music.
		Still, I'm no fan of Preminger's earlier, leaden -- and far easier to see -- "Carmen Jones." Porgy and Bess" is far superior to that less controversial film -- though that may have to do with the fact that the source material is also far superior.
		There is the issue of the film's racial politics.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0053182 (707 words)

	Film Music Recordings Reviews - August 1998 Porgy and Bess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For the record Porgy and Bess was filmed by Samuel Goldwyn in 1959.
		The film starred Sidney Poitier as Porgy, Dorothy Dandridge as Bess and Sammy Davis Jnr as Sportin’ Life.
		Larry Winters (Porgy) and Camilla Williams (Bess) were recruited from the New York City Centre Opera and are first class actors/singers so too is Avon Long outstanding as the charming yet slippery-as-a-snake Sportin’ Life.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/1998/aug98/63222.htm (481 words)

	Trivia for Porgy and Bess (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gershwin family was dissatisfied with the film, largely because it was not staged as a true opera with all the recitative performed musically, and also because the two leads had their singing voices dubbed.
		The film is currently (Nov. 2002) withheld from release because of actions by both the Gershwin and Goldwyn estates, as neither Samuel Goldwyn nor the Gershwin family were satisfied with the film.
		This was the last film to be produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0053182/trivia (553 words)

	Amazon.com: Porgy & Bess: Music: George Gershwin,Donnie Ray Albert,Steven Alex-Cole,Shirley Baines,Kenneth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clamma Dale's Bess won her awards and acclaim; she never went on to the stardom that was predicted for her, but luckily her extraordinary performance is preserved on these discs.
		The star is Bess, and she is beautiful, with a velvety voice of richness and high, shimmering femininty.
		Jamaica/ Porgy and Bess ~ Lena and Belafonte, Harry Horne
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003EMO?v=glance (2276 words)

	Brock Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars, including one for star Gregory Peck, who died in 2003.
		Brock Peters, the versatile film and stage actor, singer and producer who first rose to prominence in the 1960's and 70's with his powerful singing voice and poignant screen portrayals of angry, belligerent fl men, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles.
		Among his most striking roles were the lead in the 1972 Broadway musical "Lost in the Stars" and in the later movie, and the minor but striking part of the man wrongfully accused of rape in the film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," released in 1962.
	medialit.med.sc.edu /brock_peters.htm (2302 words)

	African American Registry: Brock Peters, a twentieth century actor!
		Receiving a stage part in Porgy and Bess in 1949, he left physical education studies at CCNY and went on tour with the musical.
		His film debut came in Carmen Jones in 1954, but he really began to make a name for himself in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The L-Shaped Room.
		As an actor he was probably best known for the role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird of Tom Robinson, the Black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2785/... (187 words)

	Brock Peters; versatile actor known for 'Mockingbird' role \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Brock Peters, the versatile film and stage actor, singer and producer who first rose to prominence in the 1960s and '70s with his powerful singing voice and poignant screen portrayals of angry, belligerent fl men, died Tuesdayat his home in Los Angeles.
		Among his most striking roles were the lead in the 1972 Broadway musical "Lost in the Stars" and in the later movie, and the minor but riveting part of the man wrongfully accused of rape in the film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," released in 1962.
		He was nominated for a Tony and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding performance by an actor in a musical for "Lost in the Stars," and he reprised the role in the 1974 motion-picture adaptation.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050828/news_mz1e28watkin.html (683 words)

	sell.com classifieds : PORGY AND BESS Poitier Dandridge WS 1959 for sale in New York (2M1DZ)
		Porgy (Sidney Poitier) is a crippled man living in the shantytown of Catfish Row who has fallen in love with Bess (Dorothy Dandridge), a beautiful but troubled woman addicted to drugs.
		Bess is already being courted by several men, including Crown (Brock Peters), a muscular laborer, and Sportin' Life (Sammy Davis, Jr.), a sharp-suited hipster who deals narcotics.
		However, if quality, getting the best-possible print of a really-rare film and dealing with a seller who knows these films is your main concern, we are the seller for you and look forward to hearing from you.
	www.sell.com /2M1DZ?cb=66 (999 words)

	: Goldwyn - The Man and His Movies - DVD Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A true film genius who is known for the mantra "make less films, make better films", Goldwyn always seemed to be at war with everything around him, while constantly doing what he could to 'fit in'.
		The funniest clip is a display of Olivier's towering acting skills when he imitates Goldwyn's voice as he reacted to Olivier's appearance during the filming of the 1939 "Wuthering Heights", one of the screen's greatest classics.
		In fact, "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway on October 10, 1935, and the 1959 film won only one Academy Award (for Best Adaptation of Score).
	www.4-fun.biz /shop/product_details.php/B00005NRNE (520 words)

	Brock Peters - Memory Alpha
		On the set of that film, he struck up a lifelong friendship with star Gregory Peck, and delivered the eulogy at Peck's funeral in 2003.
		He went on to have a supporting role in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess.
		In 1979, Peters was a guest star in one episode of the popular science fiction series Battlestar Galactica, in which his role of Chief Opposer Solon returned him to a courtroom setting, this time as a prosecutor.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Brock_Peters (667 words)

	Rare Screenings of Porgy and Bess Film to Take Place at Museum of the Moving Image, May 14 & 15: Theater News on ...
		The 1959 film version of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess, starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Diahann Carroll, and Brock Peters, will be screened on Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15 at the Museum of the Moving Image (35th Avenue at 36th Street in Astoria, Queens, NYC).
		Porgy and Bess will be shown at the museum in its only existing 35mm print, widescreen and in Technicolor, with its original magnetic-track stereo sound.
		For Preminger's film version, the singing voices of Porgy and Bess -- played on screen by Poitier and Dandridge -- were dubbed by Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5992 (403 words)

	Amazon.com: Porgy and Bess: DVD: Otto Preminger,Rouben Mamoulian,Sidney Poitier,Dorothy Dandridge,Sammy Davis Jr.,Pearl ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I believe Porgy and Bess was the first movie I ever saw, when I was about three years old, in a movie theater in the Queensbridge Projects, Long Island City, NY.
		Porgy is a good soul, but Poitier is too refined for an uneducated street beggar; Poitier's Porgy, I imagine, went to college to study law and had a bad accident which devastated his life.
		Brock, in jail because of his violent temper and the desire to posess Bess, escapes and lurks in the background as Portier becomes sweet on Bess and sways her to the real things in life, like community and love.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CX3S?v=glance (1962 words)

	NPR : 70 Years of Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess'
		Day to Day, October 10, 2005 · On this day in 1935, Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's opera about fl life in the South Carolina town of Charleston at the turn of the century, made its Broadway debut.
		Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, based on DuBose Hayward's successful novel of the same title, tells the story of poor, crippled Porgy and beautiful Bess, who runs away from the fast life to find sanctuary with Porgy and the residents of Catfish Row.
		It was a commercial failure in its first run on Broadway -- but despite that rocky start, Porgy and Bess went on to become one of the most-performed works in theater history.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4951238 (380 words)

	Widescreen Museum - The Todd-AO / 70mm Wing 7
		Todd-AO maintained a policy of demanding a percentage of the gross of a film during any 70mm showings in addition to the cost of renting their equipment and facilities.
		Though it wasn't of the epic nature of most other Todd-AO films, it was a decent potboiler and turned a handsome profit.
		The film, for those not familiar with it, was one of the first, and mercifully last, attempts at putting smells into a theatre in sync with the action on screen.
	www.widescreenmuseum.com /widescreen/wingto12.htm (920 words)

	Amazon.ca: Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film doesn't dwell on but makes good use of what it calls Goldwyn's "conflicted feelings about motherhood" and how it was manifested in such films as Stella Dallas, a property he shot twice.
		What this film does more successfully that most of its type is to give full credit to its subject's achievements while offering nuanced psychological insight.
		The funniest clip is a display of Olivier's towering acting skills when he immitates Goldwyn's voice as he reacted to Olivier's appearance during the filming of the 1939 "Wuthering Heights", one of the screen's greatest classics.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NRNE (611 words)

	St. Louis Walk of Fame - Robert McFerrin, Sr.
		He sang on Broadway and with the National Negro Opera Company, and in 1955 became the Metropolitan Opera's first African-American male soloist.
		McFerrin provided the vocals for Sidney Poitier in the 1959 film classic "Porgy and Bess," and toured and taught internationally before returning to St. Louis in 1973.
		A severe stroke in 1989 impaired his verbal ability but not his voice, and he courageously resumed performances, including concerts with his Grammy-winning son, Bobby.
	www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/robert-mcferrin-sr.html (115 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'Mockingbird' Actor Peters Dies at 78
		In 1954, he made his screen debut as the belligerent Sgt. Brown in "Carmen Jones" and later as the menacing Crown in the 1959 film version of "Porgy and Bess." These roles unfortunately typecast him as angry fl men for numerous roles.
		He continued to juggle stage work, appearing in "Othello," "The Great White Hope," "Cry, the Beloved Country," "Driving Miss Daisy" and "My Children, My Africa." He received a Tony nomination for playing the lead in "Lost in the Stars," a role he reprised in the 1974 movie adaptation.
		Peters was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1976 and received a life achievement award from the National Film Society a year later.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---26610,00.html (340 words)

	ISAM Newsletter: Widening the Lens II
		One of the highlights of ISAM’s November 1998 Gershwin Centennial Festival was a screening of the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess.
		George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess allied itself with the contradictory African American ambitions of elevating the vernacular to the level of American high art and giving classically trained fl singers a venue to demonstrate their skills.
		Because of America’s racial climate, past and present, this film is seen as a representation of pernicious political and racial exploitation.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /isam/porgyfilm.html (1455 words)

	Porgy and Bess: A Folk Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Porgy and Bess, “an American folk opera,”; opened in New York City on Oct. 10, 1935, and ran for 124 performances before closing in financial ruin.
		Participants have a special opportunity to see the Nov. 10 WNO production of Porgy and Bess, directed by Francesca Zambello, at the Kennedy Center Opera House (orchestra seats).
		The story of the Opera’s evolution; major players and performers; the correspondence between Gershwin and Heyward; archival recordings, newspaper columns, and photographs; taped interviews with the original Porgy (Todd Duncan) and Bess (Anne Brown); and a brief film clip of the original production are included.
	residentassociates.org /otooct/folk_opera.asp (363 words)

	1959 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three Stooges make their 180th and last short film, Sappy Bullfighters.
		November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.
		Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1959_in_film (152 words)

	DO THE MATH: History, Politics, Comedy
		The other comic strip, "Stokely and Tess," cleverly drawn from the Gershwin/DuBose opera Porgy and Bess, explored the internal division in the civil rights movement between advocates of nonviolent resistance in the Martin Luther King Jr.
		There were cameos by Sammy Davis Jr., Harlem preacher and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, comedian Dick Gregory, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, all celebrities associated with distinct factions of the civil rights movement or ideologies critical of it.
		Tess herself is a caricature of Diahann Carroll, the most famous fl actress of the time, who had a major role in Otto Preminger's 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess (Bess was played by Dorothy Dandridge).
	thebadplus.typepad.com /dothemath/2006/03/history_politic.html (657 words)

	Recordings Board: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: THE FILM OF 'PORGY AND BESS'
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