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Porgy and Bess

1959 · Otto Preminger · 138 min

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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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6.3/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database27 votesTMDB
Sidney PoitierPorgyDorothy DandridgeBessSammy Davis Jr.Sportin' LifePearl BaileyMariaBrock PetersCrowneDiahann CarrollClaraLeslie ScottJakeRuth AttawaySerena RobbinsClaude AkinsDetectiveClarence MusePeterEEverdinne WilsonAnnieIvan DixonJimScatman CrothersCrabmanMaya AngelouDancerNichelle NicholsDancer

Cast

Sidney PoitierPorgyDorothy DandridgeBessSammy Davis Jr.Sportin' LifePearl BaileyMariaBrock PetersCrowneDiahann CarrollClaraLeslie ScottJakeRuth AttawaySerena RobbinsClaude AkinsDetectiveClarence MusePeterEEverdinne WilsonAnnieIvan DixonJimScatman CrothersCrabmanMaya AngelouDancerNichelle NicholsDancer

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