Porgy and Bess (1959)

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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.

• Released: 1959-06-24
• Genres: Music, Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 2h 18m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.3/10 from 27 votes

Directed by Otto Preminger.

Top 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

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