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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.

Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

Maria

Brock Peters

Crowne

Diahann Carroll

Clara

Leslie Scott

Jake

Ruth Attaway

Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

Detective

Clarence Muse

Peter

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