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    Porgy: A Play in Four Acts is a play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, adapted from the short novel by DuBose Heyward. It was first produced by the...
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  • Look up porgy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porgy may refer to: Porgy (novel), a 1925 novel by DuBose Heyward Porgy (play), a 1927 play by Dorothy...
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  • produced in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play[citation needed]). "The Real Porgy", Charleston Mag, May 2014. Porgy at Project Gutenberg...
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  • Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy. Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston...
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    Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles...
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  • "Georgy Porgy" (/ˈpɔːrdʒi/) is a song by American rock band Toto. It was written by band member David Paich and included on their self-titled debut album...
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  • Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by the jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements...
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  • Summertime (George Gershwin song) (category Songs from Porgy and Bess)
    George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira...
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    DuBose Heyward (category Porgy and Bess)
    American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with...
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    O'Neill and subsequently covered by various jazz bands. The 1978 song Georgy Porgy by Toto also features the first two lines of the rhyme. The Kentish coronal...
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