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Porgy and Bess

06/24/1959

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2hrs 18min

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Music

,Drama

,Romance

Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

STORY

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Sidney Poitier
  • Dorothy Dandridge
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Pearl Bailey
  • Brock Peters

    Directors

  • Otto Preminger
  • Paul Helmick

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Samuel Goldwyn Productions
  • Columbia Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Porgy

Dorothy Dandridge

Bess

Sammy Davis Jr.

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Pearl Bailey

Maria

Brock Peters

Crowne

Diahann Carroll

Clara

Leslie Scott

Jake

Ruth Attaway

Serena Robbins

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