Porgy and Bess

1959

138 min

6.2

Ends at

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.

Budget

$7,000,000

Genre

Music, Drama, Romance

Director

Otto Preminger

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Sidney Poitier

Dorothy Dandridge

Sammy Davis Jr.

Pearl Bailey

Brock Peters

Diahann Carroll

Leslie Scott

Ruth Attaway

Claude Akins

Clarence Muse

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Porgy and Bess

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.

  • Sidney Poitier

  • Dorothy Dandridge

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

  • Pearl Bailey

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