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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the stereophonic monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

George Gershwin's classic opera, Porgy and Bess, has finally come to Boston (it opens today at the Astor), heralding, it claims, "a new era in motion pictures." This may be something of an overstatement; but let it be said here and now that Porgy is a mammoth, melliflous...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Porgy and Bess' Opens at The Astor | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

Only Dorothy Dandridge, looking radiantly beautiful, seems to be not quite up to her dramatic chores. This is certainly her best performance to date; but, though she has captured the fierceness and passion of the woman, there is something missing of the warmth and sincerity of Bess...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Porgy and Bess' Opens at The Astor | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

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