CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959

The Nun's Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has driven her to—and from—her calling, is too antiseptic in her performance, but the story is a natural and the camera work almost dazingly beautiful.

Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy...

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