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Porgy and Bess

6.1 138 mins Music   Drama   Romance   1959
Samuel Goldwyn Productions   Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Otto Preminger

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.

Casts of Porgy and Bess

Sidney Poitier

as Porgy

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Sportin' Life

Pearl Bailey

as Maria

Brock Peters

as Crowne

Diahann Carroll

as Clara

Leslie Scott

as Jake

Ruth Attaway

as Serena Robbins

Claude Akins

as Detective

Clarence Muse

as Peter

Everdinne Wilson

as Annie

Ivan Dixon

as Jim

Scatman Crothers

as Crabman

Maya Angelou

as Dancer

Nichelle Nichols

as Dancer

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