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Porgy and Bess
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.
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
Details
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Released
- June 24, 1959
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Studio
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.3 / 10 from 27 votes
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