Screenplay: DuBose Heyward

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by DuBose Heyward. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Porgy and Bess

1959 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Plot In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break...

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

The Emperor Jones

1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Paul Robeson · Dudley Digges · Frank H. Wilson · Fredi Washington

Plot At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Jones joins the congregation in a spiritual. Once on...

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Lights Out (TV Series)

1946 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Corrigan · Laurence Schwab Jr. · Kingman T. Moore · Grey Lockwood

Cast Frank Gallop · Jack La Rue · Mercer McLeod · Leslie Nielsen

Plot Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions...

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