that Porgy and Bess came into its own. The melodrama of a 1905 Charleston waterfront slum, which might otherwise have been forgotten, was elevated into a world favorite. Sidney Poitier makes him ...

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...

Then Actor Sidney (Edge of the City) Poitier quit his co-starring role ... “If Poitier had seen a script and the way we are treating Porgy and Bess, he would be excited to do it.” ...