Porgy and Bess (1959)

Name: Porgy and Bess
Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-24
Duration: 138 min
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

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

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.

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Released 1959-06-24 · 138 min · Music, Drama, Romance

Directed by Otto Preminger

Cast

Sidney Poitier as Porgy
Dorothy Dandridge as Bess
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