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    Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright...
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    Porgy (play) (category Plays by Dorothy Heyward)
    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 Theatre...
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  • author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's...
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  • Summertime (George Gershwin song) (category Songs with lyrics by DuBose Heyward)
    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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  • Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925. The novel tells the story of Porgy...
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    of her own, she co-authored the play Porgy (1927) with her husband DuBose Heyward, adapting it from his novel of the same name. Their work is now known...
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  • Representatives DuBose Ausley (born 1937), American attorney in Tallahassee, Florida Dubose Heyward House, a home of author Dubose Heyward DuBose Conference...
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    Paris, returned to New York City and wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, it came to be considered one of the...
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    The Dubose Heyward House is a historic house at 76 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Now a wing of a larger house, this modest two-story structure...
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  • the Little Gold Shoes is a 1939 children's picture book written by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Flack. The book, which has never been out...
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    and "Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess. The success the...
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    jazz influences Porgy and Bess, a folk opera (1935) (from the book by DuBose Heyward) about African-American life, now considered a definitive work of the...
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    community. The Heywards insisted on hiring the real Jenkins Orphanage Band to portray themselves on stage. Only a few years later, DuBose Heyward collaborated...
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    Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical...
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  • written by DuBose Heyward and published by the University of South Carolina Press. It was later adapted by Heward and his wife Dorothy Heyward for the stage;...
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  • All music written by George Gershwin; all lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward except where noted. Ella Fitzgerald — vocals Louis Armstrong — vocals;...
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  • playwright DuBose Heyward (1885–1940), American author Duncan Clinch Heyward (1864–1943), American politician, Governor of South Carolina Elisabeth Heyward (1919–2007)...
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    spellings and variants of the name itself include "Kiawa", "Kittiwar" (in DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy), and "Kittiwah" (in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and...
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  • My Man's Gone Now (category Songs with lyrics by DuBose Heyward)
    Man's Gone Now" is an aria composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward, written for the opera Porgy and Bess (1935). Sung in the original production...
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  • Where Is My Bess" George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" w. DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "The Blues...
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  • Doin' Time (category Songs with lyrics by DuBose Heyward)
    Length 3:22 Label Polydor Interscope Songwriter(s) Ira Gershwin Dorothy Heyward Bradley Nowell Maggie Plum Producer(s) Andrew Watt Happy Perez Lana Del...
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    inspiration for "Catfish Row" in the DuBose Heyward novel Porgy and later the opera Porgy and Bess by Gershwin. DuBose Heyward had lived nearby on Church Street...
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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Porgy and Bess Medley by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin / Carmina Burana by Carl Orff / Bridge Over Troubled...
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  • a song from George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (George & Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward). It was first recorded by Simone on her debut album Little Girl Blue...
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  • I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' (category Songs with lyrics by DuBose Heyward)
    Gershwin's 1935 "folk-opera" Porgy and Bess (1934). The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira...
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  • All Right Mama" Arthur Crudup 3:47 2. "Summertime" George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin 4:57 3. "Ain't That a Shame" Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew...
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    directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, written for the screen by playwright DuBose Heyward and starring Paul Robeson in the title role (a role he played onstage...
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  • third single "It Ain't Necessarily So", the George and Ira Gershwin/ DuBose Heyward song (from the opera Porgy and Bess) that expresses opposition to biblical...
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  • Mitsouko and the standard "Summertime", composed by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. The record is dedicated to Sadier's sister Noelle, who had committed...
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