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... Porgy , a good - natured cripple who gets around in a goat - drawn cart , is also an inveterate craps player . After Bess's lover Crown savagely kills a man dur- ing a dice game and flees to avoid the police , Porgy offers her shelter ...
... Porgy , a good - natured cripple who gets around in a goat - drawn cart , is also an inveterate craps player . After Bess's lover Crown savagely kills a man dur- ing a dice game and flees to avoid the police , Porgy offers her shelter ...
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... Porgy , balked and withdrew from the project . After this withdrawal Goldwyn seems to have had trouble casting black actors and actresses . But the situation changed suddenly in December , 1957 , when Poitier again agreed to play Porgy ...
... Porgy , balked and withdrew from the project . After this withdrawal Goldwyn seems to have had trouble casting black actors and actresses . But the situation changed suddenly in December , 1957 , when Poitier again agreed to play Porgy ...
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... Porgy and Bess . " The industry might change its way of interpreting black life in the years to come ; but Holly- wood would not really improve its vision of it.8 • But more than just a veteran producer's failure to understand a ...
... Porgy and Bess . " The industry might change its way of interpreting black life in the years to come ; but Holly- wood would not really improve its vision of it.8 • But more than just a veteran producer's failure to understand a ...
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