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Porgy and Bess

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Porgy and Bess

The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

6.1

2h 18m

1959

“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Otto Preminger

Trailer

MusicDramaRomance

fishermanmusicalsouth carolinabased on operacharleston1900s

Cast & Crew

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

as Porgy

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

as Bess

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

as Maria

Brock Peters

Brock Peters

as Crowne

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

as Clara

Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott

as Jake

Ruth Attaway

Ruth Attaway

as Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

Claude Akins

as Detective

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