<i>Porgy and Bess</i> Pressbook
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: Associated Name
content: Poitier, Sidney
label: Associated Name
content: Davis, Sammy
label: Associated Name
content: Bailey, Pearl
label: maker
content: Columbia Pictures
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pressbook for the 1959 film <i>Porgy and Bess</i>. Otto Preminger directed this cinematic adaptation of George Gershwin’s legendary opera. The film is set among the black residents of a fishing village in South Carolina during 1912. Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis Jr. star in this musical drama.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movies
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0369.06
label: accession number
content: 1986.0369
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0369.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pressbook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 20 in; 30.48 cm x 50.8 cm