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Porgy and Bess

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

  • Movie
  • 1959
  • NR
  • 2h 18m

Directed by Otto Preminger

6.3

TMDB audience rating
6.3 out of 10 from 27 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Sidney Poitier

    Sidney PoitierPorgy

  • Dorothy Dandridge

    Dorothy DandridgeBess

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life

  • Pearl Bailey

    Pearl BaileyMaria

  • Brock Peters

    Brock PetersCrowne

  • Diahann Carroll

    Diahann CarrollClara

  • Leslie Scott

    Leslie ScottJake

  • Ruth Attaway

    Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins

  • Claude Akins

    Claude AkinsDetective

  • Clarence Muse

    Clarence MusePeter

  • Everdinne WilsonAnnie

  • Ivan Dixon

    Ivan DixonJim

  • Scatman Crothers

    Scatman CrothersCrabman

  • Maya Angelou

    Maya AngelouDancer

  • Nichelle Nichols

    Nichelle NicholsDancer

Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
N. Richard Nash
Music
Ken Darby and George Gershwin
Cinematography
Leon Shamroy