Porgy and Bess(1959)
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
138 min★ 6.3 TMDBMusicDramaRomance
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.
Directed byOtto Preminger
Cast
Sidney PoitierPorgy
Dorothy DandridgeBess
Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
Pearl BaileyMaria
Brock PetersCrowne
Diahann CarrollClara
Leslie ScottJake
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
Claude AkinsDetective
Clarence MusePeter- EEverdinne WilsonAnnie
Ivan DixonJim
Scatman CrothersCrabman
Maya AngelouDancer
Nichelle NicholsDancer
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