Porgy and Bess
Release Date: 1959-06-24
Overview: 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.
Rating: 6.1 / 10
Cast
Sidney Poitier
as Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge
as Bess
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Sportin' Life
Pearl Bailey
as Maria
Brock Peters
as Crowne
Crew
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Otto Preminger - Director
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Dorothy Heyward - Theatre Play
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DuBose Heyward - Theatre Play
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N. Richard Nash - Screenplay
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Samuel Goldwyn - Producer
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