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...
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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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