06 October 1993 Drama, Music 184 mins
The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the music, with only one major cut.
Watch the official Porgy and Bess 1993 trailer in HD below or find more Porgy and Bess videos on Vidimovie.
Willard White as Porgy
Cynthia Haymon as Bess
Cynthia Clarey as Serena
Marietta Simpson as Maria
Damon Evans as Sportin' Life
Paula Ingram as Clara / Annie (singing voice)
Gordon Hawkins as Jake
Barrington Coleman as Mingo
William B. Johnson as Frazier
Andrez Harriott as Scipio
Bruce Hubbard as Jake (singing voice)
Harolyn Blackwell as Clara (singing voice)
Johnny Worthy as Robbins (singing voice)
Alan Tilvern as Detective
Ted Maynard as Mr. Archdale
Billy J. Mitchell as Coroner
George Gershwin Music
DuBose Heyward Writer
Dorothy Heyward Writer
Trevor Nunn Director
Ira Gershwin Lyricist
George Gershwin Songs
George Gershwin Original Music Composer
Chris Townsend Director of Photography
Simon Rattle Conductor
Greg Smith Producer
Stephanie Marks Producer
Richard Price Executive Producer
Dennis Marks Executive Producer
Trevor Nunn Adaptation
St. John O'Rorke Editor
United States 06 October 1993
If you liked the Porgy and Bess trailer, you may like these ones:
23 September 1973
In September 1923, during the so-called 'anti-fascist' uprising, police chief's daughter Kita falls for a student with communist beliefs.
14 February 2015
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas.
25 August 2023
An estranged man deemed to be a beast vows to break free from the evil world and transform himself for his foster daughter.
11 March 1987
Going through life without legs, 12-year-old Kenny is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs.
01 December 1994
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
24 October 2024
When a gifted athlete loses his sight, his convict brother sees an excuse for early parole. But with their joyful reunion comes tragedy.
10 April 1974
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear.
08 January 1989
The film is about a movie actress who has arrived to conquer Moscow from a distant village. Started career doesn't add up.
05 March 2011
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera.
22 November 2008
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil.
21 August 1992
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
17 September 2016
Pepe has left the psychiatric hospital after serving time for stealing to work. Only the solidarity of Antonio, a disabled activist, allows him to build a fragile life on which to project his weak hopes.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Porgy and Bess:
Description.
Porgy and Bess full hd movie trailer.
Premieres Friday October 17 2014 at 9:00 ET This production of Porgy and Bess from ...
From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam comes this performance of George Gershwin's opera. The cast features Willard White (Porgy); Faye Robinson (Bess); ...
Stars Norm Lewis (Porgy) and Audra McDonald (Bess) join director Diane Paulus to discuss the evolution and the current ...
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess recorded at Polish National Opera in Warsaw.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1993:
11 May 1993
In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emotionally involved.
01 January 1993
"A group of crazy teenagers break into an abandoned old theater and kill the owners. They dump their bodies in the basement and wake up the Cannibal Demons that have been locked there for over a hundred years.
20 May 1993
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen).
17 September 1993
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable.
29 December 1993
A widowed woman is being stalked by her husband's murderers.
30 December 1993
British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.
01 January 1993
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy.
29 September 1993
Based on the real life story of Myrna Diones, a 14 year-old survivor of a brutal massacre of her, her sister and their two cousins in the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon by the very people who should've protect them, policemen .
28 March 1993
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
11 June 1993
Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu).
Have you watched Porgy and Bess yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1993 BBC.