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Porgy and Bess (film)
Porgy and Bess
is a 1959 American
musical film
directed by
Otto Preminger
. It is based on the 1935
opera of the same name
by
George Gershwin
,
DuBose Heyward
, and
Ira Gershwin
, which is in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel
Porgy
, as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage adaptation, co-written with his wife
Dorothy
. The screenplay for the film, which turned the operatic
recitatives
into spoken dialogue, was very closely based on the opera and was written by
N. Richard Nash
.
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